3 ms·
I don't buy this. Search placement gets exploited all the time. Hiding it hasn't worked. Ever. All history is against your argument. Maybe it gets exploited be
by cptaj 7y ago
I don't buy this. Search placement gets exploited all the time. Hiding it hasn't worked. Ever. All history is against your argument.
Maybe it gets exploited because its made exploitable by design. How do you know if you can't check? You worry about bots but you don't worry about outright massive cheating from the company itself?
- skybrian 7y agoYes, it would be worse. If Google ranked its own results higher (which I don't believe they need to do) then it's not that big a deal; I can just skip past them. If every black-hat SEO knows how to cheat and they grab the first ten pages of results then the useful stuff gets lost in the noise and the search engine is no longer useful to me (or anyone else). Even evil-Google wouldn't do that because they do have incentive to keep people coming back.
- cptaj 7y agoHow do you know that doesn't already happen? Maybe instead of researching the algo and investing in manipulation, they just hand a check to someone at google and you're done. Without transparency, you have no way of knowing. Good old fashioned corruption is way more effective than modern hacker approaches.