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That would allow some pretty rampant gaming of SEO, wouldn't it?

• zo1 8y ago
  Google facilitates SEO gaming by not letting us openly crowd-source the removal of websites/hosts/topics that participate in manipulative SEO or any other criteria from our search results. When was the last time you tried to permanently remove a domain/website from search results? And not temporarily via the "negative" operator, as that gets tedious. So instead of having an open, curated or crowd-sourced list of bad domains that can cater to any specific crowd/subset, we are forced to accept or promote serious, government and large-scale censorship in order to hide bad content. But more to the point. It's more about centralization than it is about "filter bubbles".
• amelius 8y ago
  If Google shows "these results were filtered using the fact that you're a Caucasian, in the age-group 30-35, with a predicted income of $50.000", then how is that going to help SEO much?
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  • bduerst 8y ago
    Search keywords are a commodity. Allowing anyone to peek under the hood is going to lead to bad actors mass scraping and gaming, even if the search result signals you're sharing are aggregated.