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While I think this particular stance is a bit extreme I do agree that some of Google's larger signals have been heavily gamified and even though they change the
by Grimm1 6y ago
While I think this particular stance is a bit extreme I do agree that some of Google's larger signals have been heavily gamified and even though they change them up every few years they've had a hard time combating people who try to play the system. I very much think that looking into alternative ranking methods less subject to gaming is a good idea.
- jfim 6y agoIt's the case for pretty much all of the content that's online these days. Online reviews aren't really trustworthy, online news and social media isn't really either, nor are search rankings. I'm not sure if there's a real solution though, pretty much every mechanism for solving this has far too many incentives to break it, so that you'd get traffic/clicks/purchases. Just too much money causes the metrics to be gamed.
- Grimm1 6y agoI think that because there is very little competition in search in particular that they are able to rest on that -- I think if you saw real competition in the space for users that it would at least get better.