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> If you have any idea how google works you know this (two week advance notice of algo changes) is impossible. You do have some idea, don't you? Enlighten us h
by janeroe 6y ago
> If you have any idea how google works you know this (two week advance notice of algo changes) is impossible.
You do have some idea, don't you? Enlighten us how it works and why algo change notices are impossible.
> some things are impossible, such as control over borders
Right, no country outside of EU has control over their borders.
- graeme 6y agoBecause search engine quality control is a cat and mouse game with spammers and grey hat companies trying to game rankings. Literally a multi billion dollar industry. If google gives advance notice of all of this to australian news orgs, they have an asset worth billions and which would break the web worldwide if leaked. This is just part of it. Even legit sites do some gaming: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing
- MaurizioPz 6y ago> such as control over borders and regulations and unfettered free trade with the eu. Not OP but I think this is meant to be read as one full condition, not 3 impossible things
- graeme 6y agoYes precisely. You can have the first two, or the second, but not all three together.
- amscanne 6y ago> You do have some idea, don't you? Enlighten us how it works and why algo change notices are impossible. I work at Google, but not on search. How do you even interpret "algorithm changes" there? It can be as broad as any code or configuration push. Across a complex service, that's probably happening hundreds of times per day. (And even if you narrow the scope to just some search-specific code, changes are probably still happening many times per day.) Are you supposed to have a mandatory 14-day waiting period for every change to hit production? With a lawyer to approve and transcribe an external description for each one?