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Isn't there a search engine out there that takes into account the advertisements vs. content ratio? It would be trivial to get rid of Made for Adsense sites by
by dlib 17y ago
Isn't there a search engine out there that takes into account the advertisements vs. content ratio? It would be trivial to get rid of Made for Adsense sites by scanning for the Adsense code used and seeing how often it's used on a page and the percentage of the page it takes up.
- epi0Bauqu 17y agoDuck Duck Go tries to do this.
- moultano 17y agoThere are a lot of good results that have a similar ratio of ads to "content" unless your definition of content is very sophisticated.
- skinnymuch 17y agoGoogle allows you to have three ads though. If you had a page with three ads and the best written 500 word article on it's topic, your definition of MFA sites would have it banned even though it is obviously a ton better than most sites around.
- prawn 17y agoFor smaller publishers, it's usually three blocks of ads plus two blocks of link units. For those not familiar with AdSense, link units are the horizontal or vertical lists which take the visitor to a search results page rather than straight to an advertiser's page. I think a strict definition of MFA is always going to be a little grey, but there's clearly something wrong with pages that are nothing other than widgets, scraped content and the like.