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But slow/fast isn't quality. What were the rigorous measurements? Latency of results to click? User clicked above the fold? I have wondered about this now for
by foobiekr 5y ago
But slow/fast isn't quality. What were the rigorous measurements? Latency of results to click? User clicked above the fold?
I have wondered about this now for several years, because from my point of view Google search has steadily degraded since around 2010. The specific degradation isn't that it returns nothing, or irrelevant pages, but that it returns mostly _recent_ content, and returns very little _older_ content which is still assuredly on the web.
I can see how Google's approach will work for the average search query - after all, the average query is probably about something happening now - but that doesn't equate to _quality_.
- marginalia_nu 5y ago> But slow/fast isn't quality. What were the rigorous measurements? Latency of results to click? User clicked above the fold? Slow and fast is what we experience. We live in a phenomenological world, not a world of millisecond metrics. While it isn't rigorous, for humans, numbers are pointless. We can't experience them. What matters is whether it feels fast.
- foobiekr 5y agoThat isn’t quality. That’s like saying a crappy textbook full of errors that ships prime same day is better than a good textbook that takes a week to arrive.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoSure it is, what it isn't is quantity. Quality and quantity isn't the same thing.