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>Whatever qualms you might have about the vagaries of the search algorithm, you can't dispute that it's difficult to game. Nothing personal against you, but as
by ksk 8y ago
>Whatever qualms you might have about the vagaries of the search algorithm, you can't dispute that it's difficult to game.
Nothing personal against you, but as a user I find that google's algorithms are trivially gamed by the SEO industry. Apart from the ads themselves, I personally think a small ranking boost for pages that don't run ads will go a long way to clean up the search results.
- maccard 8y ago> I personally think a small ranking boost for pages that don't run ads will go a long way to clean up the search results. It's highly unlikely that google (a company whose business model is selling ads) will prioritise sites without ads.
- ksk 8y agoIt was unlikely that they would include an adblocker in their browser, but they did. Personally, I don't like Google as a company, but they do do weird stuff like that. They're going to still be making tons of money from paid ads in the search results, youtube, cloud services, and other google properties.
- SilasX 8y agoExactly. Plus, the reason the organic BB links are better now is because they can advertise. When they money flows out of Google ads and back into SEO, that can distort the search results just the same. Google apparently knows (through its consultation with these thoughtful non-profits) which orgs aren't going to exploit those who need a bail bond. Why not use the ad space to point people to those orgs? (Per my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022103 )