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If Google can't use it's vast array of user data to tell the difference between SEO bots and non-bot users, what's even the point of it collecting all that fuck
by jancsika 4y ago
If Google can't use it's vast array of user data to tell the difference between SEO bots and non-bot users, what's even the point of it collecting all that fucking data in the first place?
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- bryanrasmussen 4y agoGood point, but I have my reasons for suspecting they can't tell the difference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31296953 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31296953
- scoopertrooper 4y agoMaybe that's part of how they train it?
- rednalexa 4y agoI would assume that if Google is paying 10$/hour for humans to rank content, someone else is paying 11$/hour to fool it with a human generating content, clicks, etc. Additionally, people writing bots learn just like Google learns, and start generating what appears to be legitimate interactions. Same algorithms that fit to critique between 'bot' and 'non-bot' class can be used to create bots that fall into the 'non-bot' category. It's a losing battle - but what we get is better than we would get if they collected less data.
- bhartzer 4y agoThat’s what’s confusing in the articles that have come out about quality raters. Quality Raters don’t actually rank websites. Quality Raters look at websites and answer questions about them. Google then uses that data as a small part of their algorithm to adjust some factors about those sites. Quality Raters don’t actually rank pages on google.
- anm89 4y agoThis isn't correct. I was a quality rater. We spent almost all of our time literally ranking websites.
- yupper32 4y agoYour ranking is a signal that goes into the algorithm, not the actual end result.
- anm89 4y agoI understand that. My post never implies that that was the case. > Quality Raters look at websites and answer questions about them. Wrong. I was never asked any questions beyond to rank to site quality for a query > Quality Raters don’t actually rank website Wrong again. This is what we did. We assessed website rankings for specific queries.
- yupper32 4y agoWhy do you think you're the only type of rater?
- anm89 4y agoI understand that. > Quality Raters look at websites and answer questions about them. Wrong. At least in my case. I was never asked any questions beyond to rank to site quality for a query