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Not only that, we just need one that works the way Google used to work. You know, something like the old algorithm that made Google famous and made competitors
by aceazzameen 5y ago
Not only that, we just need one that works the way Google used to work. You know, something like the old algorithm that made Google famous and made competitors obsolete.
- alangibson 5y agoThe hard part of what Google does is spam and abuse prevention. If you only indexed known-good sources I think the hard part would basically be done. Providing good search results, rich queries, sentiment analysis etc is all old hat by now.
- jeffbee 5y ago"Known-good" sources have a serious habit of getting owned by malware and replaced by organized crime schemes. Anti-abuse can't be handled by whitelists, it needs to be an online system.
- alangibson 5y agoGarbage sources have a serious habit of getting taken over. It's not that common with quality sites, but also not impossible. A simple downvoting system would be good enough.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoThe problem is that even quality sites die. And when they do, their domain gets poached and suddenly it's not a quality site anymore. But according to the ranking algorithms it's the same site, since its quality is measured by how many links it gets. Coopting quality sites is a bit of a cottage industry. There is also a significant amount of hacked wordpress sites. Their domain may be quite reputable, but they're unknowingly host to a ton of spam.
- temporaryi3 5y agowhat you want is the internet with only a couple hundred million people connected, only a million or so content creators. Unless you have some pretty evil supervillain scheme, no moral compass, and succeed.... that world is never coming back.
- pixelgeek 5y agoI think that if the company doing the search results wasn't also the company getting money from SEO spammers posting ads on their websites then the search results might be better.
- jeremyjh 5y agoThat old algorithm would just hand you a bunch of SEO spam.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoGoogle already does that though...
- jeremyjh 5y agoYes but the Google algorithm circa 2003 would be much, much worse. There has been an arms race for the last 20 years.
- alok-g 5y agoI am not sure. It may be me lacking in understanding.
- mda 5y agoOld algorithm with todays internet content would be utterly garbage.
- skinkestek 5y agoPeople keep saying that and yet the one person project search.marginalia.nu keeps delighting us. I can't imagine they use Googles newest algorithm.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI'm actually using Google's original algorithm, with a modification suggested in the original PageRank paper called Personalized PageRank that allows using a specific segment of the internet as a tastemaker in creating the ranking. It's a bit funny because the authors of the paper suggest this modification and explicitly states it makes the algorithm extremely resilient to manipulation from commercial interests.
- flenserboy 5y agoThe spooks will take over that one, too.