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"Improving algorithms" now involves writing a blacklist? Blacklists are fine, but please don't call them algorithms.
by aristidb 16y ago
"Improving algorithms" now involves writing a blacklist? Blacklists are fine, but please don't call them algorithms.
- joshuacc 16y ago"we developed an algorithmic solution which detects the merchant from the Times article along with hundreds of other merchants that, in our opinion, provide an extremely poor user experience." The implication seems to be that they've found a way of programmatically identifying these offenders.
- coliveira 16y agoOf course, this solution probably produces lots of false positives, so they will have to change it later when other complains are raised. I think the original idea of Google was great, but with each iteration their search results get worse. In the end, it seems that anything they do can be gamed in some way.
- aristidb 16y agoI originally read it the way that they feed the list of merchants manually. But it is possible that I understood that wrong, yeah.
- arbitrarywords 16y agoAlgorithm Psuedocode? If website in manually fed list Then demote.
- Matt_Cutts 16y agoaristidb, it is an algorithm, not a blacklist. The rankings for hundreds of websites change as a result of this new algorithm.