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By 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 u

By 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 ago
Here'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 ago
  Heh 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 ago
I 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 ago
  I'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 ago
  Funnily enough, there WAS a way to blacklist/remove sites in the SearchWiki feature ! Could you bring this back, Google ? Pretty pleeeeeeese :))

ry0ohki 16y ago

Here'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 ago
Heh 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 ago

I 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 ago
I'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 ago
Funnily enough, there WAS a way to blacklist/remove sites in the SearchWiki feature ! Could you bring this back, Google ? Pretty pleeeeeeese :))