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I expect it will knock w3schools of it's search result throne in the coming years. There's no practical incentive for Google to prioritize MDN over w3schools t
by onion2k 5y ago
I expect it will knock w3schools of it's search result throne in the coming years.
There's no practical incentive for Google to prioritize MDN over w3schools though. Google doesn't seem to rank sites on quality any more. I suspect they rank sites on "ad profitability" instead. Showing users websites that have adverts means users click on more adverts, which Google benefits from (by encouraging that user behavior even if they're not the ad publisher themselves).
w3schools has been online since 1998. MDN has been online since 2005. Why would Google change the search results in the coming years rather than at any time in the previous 17 years if they were aiming for quality?