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This is good news, but I feel like it is only treating a symptom not the actual disease. If the algorithm properly detected site relevance, importance and view
by seles 16y ago
This is good news, but I feel like it is only treating a symptom not the actual disease.
If the algorithm properly detected site relevance, importance and viewer satisfaction, those copycat sites should never have ranked higher in the first place. In a way this is admitting that it is impossible to stop the gaming of search engine optimization, and that the only way to deal with it is to "win" in some special cases.
That being said I provide no real solution, this is a huge problem with millions behind each side.
Although this is good news it is also gloom news.
- LiveTheDream 16y agoHow would an algorithm detect viewer satisfaction?
- seles 16y agoHow long user stays on page (hint would be how soon they make next search/click), whether or not they continue looking for something under a similar search query, having actual buttons users can click to rate, etc.
- moultano 16y agoSpam gets upvoted to the top of reddit on a regular basis. Most people are pretty apathetic to legitimacy most of the time. All we ever have is proxies for quality, the hope is that we have enough of them to cover the space.