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This couldn't happen to a more deserving publication.

by welly 7y ago

gargarplex 7y ago
Agree ?
- rvnx 7y ago
  Search engines should be loyal to newspapers. Agree ?
  - gargarplex 7y ago
    I hired the applicant who came late to the interview and had no professional experience. He spit on my face but his great aunt was in the hospital. Always understand, expect the best and people deliver! Agree ? </s>
EGreg 7y ago
And Alex Jones got what’s coming to him. But what about dissidents in countries? https://qbix.com/blog https://qbix.com/blog
tialaramex 7y ago
All the web sites that go with British newspapers (and for all I know, other newspapers in the world, but I live in Britain) have been doing grey-SEO stuff that's bound to get hit by algorithm changes. By "grey SEO" here I'm thinking of articles that are intended to get "natural" traffic as a result of people asking questions, e.g. "When is the new Avengers movie out?" "Which channel is The Crown on?" "Was Michael Jackson a Paedophile?" "Who is that girl from Stranger Things?" An encyclopedia is often the natural result for questions like these, or some sort of specialist fact database, IMDB for example, or a TV channel's own listings site. But the newspapers decided they could get some of those clicks. If some people who were wondering if that's the same girl in Godzilla (yup) click through and see four adverts and read speculation as to whether Kate Middleton hates her brother-in-law's new wife (probably not, also who cares?) that's more profit for the publisher. Anyway, Google's thing has always been trying to put the answers you wanted at the top. In defiance of Babbage's oft-cited remark, Google wants to give you the answer you were looking for even if you ask the wrong question. This may often mean that a Daily Mail article trying to get you to click through to more slop about nothing is NOT the best answer when you asked a mundane question and Google may tweak their algorithm to prefer say, the Netflix video trailer for this season of Black Mirror, higher than a Daily Mail article speculating that Charlie Brooker might be gay when users ask it "When is Black Mirror new series?" even if the Daily Mail team worked really hard setting metadata tags and fiddling with the layout.
- stordoff 7y ago
  > "When is the new Avengers movie out?" "Which channel is The Crown on?" "Was Michael Jackson a Paedophile?" "Who is that girl from Stranger Things?" What I'm increasingly noticing in the results for these is title:"Avengers movie release date", body:"No release date has yet been announced for the Avengers movie" (but not in the search engine snippet).

This couldn't happen to a more deserving publication.

by welly 7y ago

This couldn't happen to a more deserving publication.

gargarplex 7y ago

Agree ?

rvnx 7y ago
Search engines should be loyal to newspapers. Agree ?
- gargarplex 7y ago
  I hired the applicant who came late to the interview and had no professional experience. He spit on my face but his great aunt was in the hospital. Always understand, expect the best and people deliver! Agree ? </s>

EGreg 7y ago

And Alex Jones got what’s coming to him. But what about dissidents in countries? https://qbix.com/blog https://qbix.com/blog

tialaramex 7y ago

All the web sites that go with British newspapers (and for all I know, other newspapers in the world, but I live in Britain) have been doing grey-SEO stuff that's bound to get hit by algorithm changes. By "grey SEO" here I'm thinking of articles that are intended to get "natural" traffic as a result of people asking questions, e.g. "When is the new Avengers movie out?" "Which channel is The Crown on?" "Was Michael Jackson a Paedophile?" "Who is that girl from Stranger Things?" An encyclopedia is often the natural result for questions like these, or some sort of specialist fact database, IMDB for example, or a TV channel's own listings site. But the newspapers decided they could get some of those clicks. If some people who were wondering if that's the same girl in Godzilla (yup) click through and see four adverts and read speculation as to whether Kate Middleton hates her brother-in-law's new wife (probably not, also who cares?) that's more profit for the publisher. Anyway, Google's thing has always been trying to put the answers you wanted at the top. In defiance of Babbage's oft-cited remark, Google wants to give you the answer you were looking for even if you ask the wrong question. This may often mean that a Daily Mail article trying to get you to click through to more slop about nothing is NOT the best answer when you asked a mundane question and Google may tweak their algorithm to prefer say, the Netflix video trailer for this season of Black Mirror, higher than a Daily Mail article speculating that Charlie Brooker might be gay when users ask it "When is Black Mirror new series?" even if the Daily Mail team worked really hard setting metadata tags and fiddling with the layout.

stordoff 7y ago
> "When is the new Avengers movie out?" "Which channel is The Crown on?" "Was Michael Jackson a Paedophile?" "Who is that girl from Stranger Things?" What I'm increasingly noticing in the results for these is title:"Avengers movie release date", body:"No release date has yet been announced for the Avengers movie" (but not in the search engine snippet).