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Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by plank on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:22AM (#40186712)
One idea, but people will probably hate me for it: If you return to e.g. the google search site (hence: when the long click metric would be triggered) have a dialog on top saying ‘result great / OK / bad-or-confusing’. Can probably be gamed (bot nets trying to destroy the reputation of others) but at least a long time would not automatically mean ‘great result’. (In the arms race to combat destruction, it could be so that a ‘bad-or-confusing’ click would not actually push a value down, just not make it go higher).

Kind regards, Roel

Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website by squidbeak on Sunday April 28, 2024 @06:55AM (#40187621)
This was tried with a +1 button around the time of Google Plus's launch.