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Something has changed here. Aging or a ranking tweak or Phase Of The Moon, something. A search from a couple of days ago is now returning SO above EF, where t
by Hoff 16y ago
Something has changed here. Aging or a ranking tweak or Phase Of The Moon, something. A search from a couple of days ago is now returning SO above EF, where that wasn't the case a few days ago.
Ah, here's one from the search history with EF above SO:
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There are several eFreedom hits from the first page, and SO has one hit on page 2 and one hit on page 3.
I have screenshots of the first three pages.
- Matt_Cutts 16y agoThanks for giving a concrete example. I'd gotten a couple examples when talking to Jeff Atwood earlier and passed that on to the appropriate team, but more concrete examples always help when we're trying to rank the sites in the best order.
- Matt_Cutts 16y agoBy the way, if people want to mention more examples of other sites outranking Stack Overflow by replying here, I'll try to circle back to check for them, then use them to poke the relevant team to make sure we're doing everything we can.
- ry0ohki 16y agoHere's the only example I have: http://www.google.com/search?q=facebox+value+text&hl=en http://www.google.com/search?q=facebox+value+text&hl=en Based on my search history I've clicked efreedom links several times, but currently the stackoverflow link is the top one for those searches now. I would be surprised if I had clicked efreedom if stackoverflow was at top.
- benologist 16y agoHeh I get this spammy piece of crap at #1 for that search: http://pinoytech.org/question/1699545/unable-to-get-value-from-textbox-used-inside-a-facebox http://pinoytech.org/question/1699545/unable-to-get-value-fr...
- pbz 16y agoI personally would prefer a way to just blacklist sites like this. It's very easy to visually spot a "cloner", and once I found such a site I don't care to see it again. I know this feature has been requested by many others; just adding one more voice to the pile.
- redthrowaway 16y agoI'd like them to just have a site to report SEO scammers, where you could just copy and paste the URL. This would make FF/Chrome extensions trivial. Google could rank each submitter in a similar way to how they rank reCaptcha submissions as a way of discouraging abuse. Still, I think it's becoming apparent that SEO has broken PageRank, and we really are in need of something else. Whether that something else is algorithmic, social, or, most likely, a combination of the two, remains to be seen. Still, I don't think we'll ever have a system that can't be gamed.
- lazylland 16y agoFunnily enough, there WAS a way to blacklist/remove sites in the SearchWiki feature ! Could you bring this back, Google ? Pretty pleeeeeeese :))
- ry0ohki 16y agoI'd love to get more insight into how Google fixes problems like this, like hopefully you don't just hard code a multiplier for stackoverflow.com or a negative one for the spam sites?
- anonymous246 16y agoHN's "voting based on commenter" at work? This is probably single most useful comment in the entire thread, and Matt's "thank you" note had higher votes than the content? Sorry about the derail. I've personally not seen efreedom ranking above stackoverflow. I've seen it 2 places down or one down. So this is a very valuable comment. IMHO. YMMV.