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> breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics Google wasn't tricked, it's

by akerro 7y ago

> breaking hundred of thousands of legit website each time, Google is still dumb enough to be tricked by such a simplistic tactics Google wasn't tricked, it's intentional. Their business model is generating money from clicks. It's not showing you best results for what you search for. It's showing latest news, tragedy, and what people talk about. 10h old news? OLD, BORING. New shiny 2h young news? YEA, more clicks, clicks and more click, more ads, more clicks, more revenue. The sponsored content online must be constantly changing and adapting to new information to generate more profits and more clicks and keep people clicking and visiting and searching. Don't forget that it's not only sponsored content, but also targeted content with user tracking, because clicks count, on one day they will show you news to annoy you to generate more searches and clicks, on another day they will show you majority of stuff to calm you down. Keep clicking.

mmahemoff 7y ago
Good point that there can be misaligned incentives between searcher and search engine. Is it really the case here though? Most people would be running this search because they heard about the story elsewhere, so they will consider the search engine less useful when they see a completely different (non-)story. If it was a bizarre tale about a prime minister making bus models, maybe, but "Politician praises himself, more news at 11" in place of a story hours earlier doesn't appear to help Google.
mda 7y ago
Eh, so you want older news on this one but you probably want newer ones on others? I don't think this rant makes any sense.
- akerro 7y ago
  This isn't a rant, it's a statement of facts.
  - sergioj97 7y ago
    Seems like a rant to me. What exactly are you criticizing about the way Google decides which results to show first, in this particular case?
    - akerro 7y ago
      I'm not necessary criticizing, but it's a bit sad that most popular search engine turned to be manipulation and persuasion machine. I no longer thing about it as search engine, more like "what's trendy network", BUT I recognize that Google Search belongs to google and google is a business, and business does what's most profitable! That's good for them, not necessary for us, I personally almost never use google search, but I use android with google account, just because duck duck go is better search engine and google android is really comfortable.

by akerro 7y ago

mmahemoff 7y ago

Good point that there can be misaligned incentives between searcher and search engine. Is it really the case here though? Most people would be running this search because they heard about the story elsewhere, so they will consider the search engine less useful when they see a completely different (non-)story. If it was a bizarre tale about a prime minister making bus models, maybe, but "Politician praises himself, more news at 11" in place of a story hours earlier doesn't appear to help Google.

mda 7y ago

Eh, so you want older news on this one but you probably want newer ones on others? I don't think this rant makes any sense.

akerro 7y ago
This isn't a rant, it's a statement of facts.
- sergioj97 7y ago
  Seems like a rant to me. What exactly are you criticizing about the way Google decides which results to show first, in this particular case?
  - akerro 7y ago
    I'm not necessary criticizing, but it's a bit sad that most popular search engine turned to be manipulation and persuasion machine. I no longer thing about it as search engine, more like "what's trendy network", BUT I recognize that Google Search belongs to google and google is a business, and business does what's most profitable! That's good for them, not necessary for us, I personally almost never use google search, but I use android with google account, just because duck duck go is better search engine and google android is really comfortable.