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> Don’t the makers of Search Engines know this? Of course they do. It’s just not in their interest to bring clarity. Because they're in a perpetual arms race a
by oconnor663 7y ago
> Don’t the makers of Search Engines know this? Of course they do. It’s just not in their interest to bring clarity.
Because they're in a perpetual arms race against spammers. The search engines don't have a choice about any of this.
- zo1 7y agoI reckon that arms-race only exists because the web is fundamentally broken due to having/allowing some level of anonymity. If you could perma-ban a spammer's real world identity or that of his company (or any company they're a part of), then there would be no need for the arms race. Just a continual "negotiation" whereby bad behavior is informed and requested to stop. And if that entity decided to ignore such a request they'd get the nuclear option of being permanently banned from the platform. You could argue that such a system would not be that different to real-world licensing requirements/restrictions as applied to lawyers and doctors. Just follow the identity like you would the money, and you could solve a good chunk of this issue.
- buboard 7y agoIf it s an arms race they are quite the losers. Google s image search is basically unusable for free material. Bing or yandex are way better