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General search is ruined, but image and product search contains very few items about the repository and comments.
by BoppreH 6y ago
General search is ruined, but image and product search contains very few items about the repository and comments.
- Grimm1 6y agoGeneral search being ruined is a consequence of how Google has chosen to rank results and not an indictment against search in general though.
- zepto 6y agoI’d like to believe that, but surely even if Google was a non-profit which gave away its index and showed no adverts anywhere, placement in search results would still be a valuable commodity and SEO would be pretty much the same as it is today.
- Grimm1 6y agoI wasn't even attacking their positioning of advertisements among results. I was more saying that I think one of their larger signals (that we know of) PageRank has some consequences in terms of presenting things like a well linked and referenced GitHub result as a top result instead of an actual striped shirt. They do a really good job of filtering out garbage but in terms of contextual relevance it doesn't work out so well. Edit: I'll also point out that it may not even be a modern PageRank fault but a consequence of learning to rank or some other major signal but it's in line with what I would suppose to be the culprit.
- SAI_Peregrinus 6y agoAnd it's easy to create similar examples. "Jacket without stripes". "Pan without non-stick coating". Anything of the form "X without Y" tends to trip up Google.