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Exactly why I stopped using google news. Garbage sites started getting thier garbage articles into my feed constantly and it was an annoying battle to keep them
by ebbv 8y ago
Exactly why I stopped using google news. Garbage sites started getting thier garbage articles into my feed constantly and it was an annoying battle to keep them out. Seems obvious and easy to fix, but in true google fashion they will probably only make it worse.
- danmaz74 8y ago> Seems obvious and easy to fix Is it?
- abenedic 8y agoThere is usually a pattern used by clickbait articles, and psuedoscientific ones tend to use unusual words(e.g. quantum, toxin, etc.) far more regularly. Also the entire site tends to be bad, so google could index a list of poor quality news sites. Isn't that a little bit their job for ranking sites?
- danmaz74 8y agoIt is their job, but, looking at what happens with SEO - the never ending cat-and-mouse game where "black hats" always adapt to the new countermeasures Google puts in place - I wouldn't say it's all that easy :)
- ebbv 8y agoYeah, it is. Give people better interfaces for controlling the sources. Set a higher bar for quality before even letting a site put their articles up. It wasn’t a problem on Google News for years and it’s because it didn’t pull articles from those sites. A super easy solution is just dump all those newer contributing sites. Saying that Google has problems with spammers in search results too isn’t proof that the problem is hard to solve, because it used to be solved pretty well in both cases. It’s proof that Google has de-prioritized solving it.
- jhasse 8y ago> Give people better interfaces for controlling the sources. RSS? ;)