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So long as you use an algorithm to rank content, people will be able to reverse-engineer it and game Google Search results. Of course, without an algorithm I ha

So long as you use an algorithm to rank content, people will be able to reverse-engineer it and game Google Search results. Of course, without an algorithm I have no idea how they could possibly rank billions of web pages.

i_am_nomad 7y ago
"As soon as you define a metric to measure a goal, the metric itself becomes the goal." I'm sure I'm mangling that quotation, but that's the phenomenon you're describing, or at least a close relative of it.
- Majromax 7y ago
  You're looking for Goodhart's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law): "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
snaky 7y ago
Do we have an idea how could Wikipedia generate millions of web pages with no algorithm?