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Of course it doesn't sort the internet alphabetically, that'd make no sense and be a bad user experience as well as optimize for URLS starting with A.
by root_axis 7y ago
Of course it doesn't sort the internet alphabetically, that'd make no sense and be a bad user experience as well as optimize for URLS starting with A.
- goatinaboat 7y agoI don’t mean literally alphabetically but according to some objective measures. In the old days it was by incoming links (PageRank). But now it is opaque and many people are finding that it orders by whatever is best for Google, not for the user.
- root_axis 7y agoThere is not nearly enough room on the front page for everyone that wants to be there, google has to make subjective decisions about what shows up there, it's impossible to do it any other way.
- amelius 7y agoThey could randomize it. Allow everybody to be on the front page an equal number of times.
- root_axis 7y agoI don't think that's a bad idea, but the vast majority of google users would not desire this behavior, especially the way google is used today where users try specific terms to relocate content they have looked up before.
- Dylan16807 7y agoThen it's spam farms as far as the eye can see, because they can enter a hundred times as much as everyone else.