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Somehow humans are very good at telling apart SEO crap from legitimate content even without understanding the content or the language itself - SEO crap has some
by Nextgrid 5y ago
Somehow humans are very good at telling apart SEO crap from legitimate content even without understanding the content or the language itself - SEO crap has some common elements such as ads, affiliate links, a certain page layout, etc.
I remember using an open-source ML model (trained on Buzzfeed article titles) to detect YouTube clickbait based on titles and it worked brilliantly, and that was just downloading some code on GitHub and running it as-is. I'm sure the same could be applied to search results and you could achieve much better quality if you actually put some effort into it.
I very much doubt this is some kind of hard problem as opposed to Google just giving up because their business model doesn't actually incentivize good search results.
- Volker_W 5y ago> I remember using an open-source ML model (trained on Buzzfeed article titles) to detect YouTube clickbait based on titles Link to the Repo please?
- not2b 5y agoThe sites are serving Google a different version of the page than they serve the rest of us.
- Nextgrid 5y agoThis isn't a new problem and I'm pretty sure Google has countermeasures for that, and even if they didn't, it doesn't look like an unsolvable problem - automation can help but having a "report" feature on the search results page or literally paying real people (using real browsers) to review results can work and is virtually bulletproof.