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> Within a week, tens of thousands of SEO specialists will be on the case, reverse-engineering the magic and figuring out how to get their crappy sites back to
by Nextgrid 5y ago
> Within a week, tens of thousands of SEO specialists will be on the case, reverse-engineering the magic and figuring out how to get their crappy sites back to the top of the rankings.
The Google competitor will have a human nuke their entire domain or business (based on a manual index of banned products/brands) from the search results forever, or have by default a bias against ad-filled websites which would remove any commercial incentive for those websites to exist in the first place.
- ncann 5y agoThat kind of manual intervention doesn't scale though. The only way it can work is to have community-curated lists of bad domains, similar to adblock lists, that users can upload to personalize their search result.
- Nextgrid 5y agoSomehow a distributed community of unpaid volunteers manages to keep the entire advertising industry (where billions are at stake) at bay by curating adblock lists. I'm sure a company can achieve the same. It will never be 100% perfect, but it will surely be better than what we have now. But yes, supporting community-supplied adblock-style lists would be a start, and Google isn't even doing that.
- wumpus 5y agoCongratulations, you just invented Blekko! Which in turn was inspired by the success of DMOZ. Maybe it's an idea whose time has come.
- justaguy37 5y agoI hope they'd have a human complaints department too, for when (a real) business is upset
- Nextgrid 5y agoComplaints need to require a small refundable fee to deter spam.