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First, there’s a difference between moderation by prioritization vs blacklisting. Second, if I search for “the Pirate Bay website” I’m pretty sure there’s an o
by jtbayly 5y ago
First, there’s a difference between moderation by prioritization vs blacklisting.
Second, if I search for “the Pirate Bay website” I’m pretty sure there’s an objective result that should be there at the top.
- willis936 5y agoI don't see a difference between not listing something and listing it below an infinite number of null results. 1 / ∞ = 0
- sdenton4 5y agoThere's barely a difference between delisting and listing as the eleventh result...
- duduer8fttg 5y agoIs this not a false dichotomy? Unless you are purposely using deprioritization as a substitute for blacklisting it would stand to reason that results 'moderated' to the bottom of the a priority list ended up there because they actually aren't considered useful/relevant to the query. So unless you are moderating in bad faith blacklisting is clearly different because it removes the users ability to find the content at all and it wholly ignores the intent of their search.
- willis936 5y agoHow is it not the true dichotomy? Delisting is the same as prioritizing noise over good hits.
- marcus_holmes 5y agoif "the pirate bay website" is written in lots of documents discussing the legality of the website, but the actual website is called "https://www.piratebay.org https://www.piratebay.org" and doesn't contain the words "the pirate bay website" at all, then by any objective measure that site should be way down the list of any search results for "the pirate bay website".
- jtbayly 5y agoYou honestly think that it's the wrong answer to show that website when somebody searches for that term? The title tag of the site is as follows: "Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site" And it's the number one search result for that phrase on DDG. Because search engines are actually programmed well enough to figure out that's the right answer. I'm not sure why you think it's the wrong answer to show that site as the first result, but I'm pretty sure everybody else in the world disagrees with you, and would prefer that they see the website they are searching for, instead of news articles about the site they are searching for.
- acchow 5y agoThis is 2021. Search engines are aiming for semantic matches.
- peakaboo 5y agoWe should apply this logic to something else to have some fun. You go to the shop and look for spaghetti and instead of finding it, you find all the other things you can use together with spaghetti to make a nice meal. Now, if only you could find some spaghetti to go with all the other stuff...