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Google already has similar signals: 1. Do you click on the link in the results page? 2. After clicking on that link, do you go back to the search or not? 3.
by fshbbdssbbgdd 4y ago
Google already has similar signals:
1. Do you click on the link in the results page?
2. After clicking on that link, do you go back to the search or not?
3. How long do you stay there before coming back?
Adding an explicit up/downvote would capture some additional information, but it would overlap with the above, and most users would ignore the button. I’d guess Google has at some point experimented with this and found it wasn’t worth keeping.
- bhartzer 4y agoWe know they probably use CTR as a ranking factor. However, a site could just literally add JS code on the page and disable the back button. So I don’t think that would work out that well for Google.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 4y agoThat sounds like a trick that would only work until Google noticed.
- Nextgrid 4y agoSince a few years there’s been plenty of cheap tricks that would’ve earned you a manual ban/downrank back in the day that Google now turns a blind eye to.
- civilized 4y agoI'm sure they have all sorts of fancy stuff but at the end of the day, there's a lot of SEO garbage at the top of the rankings that I would really love to downvote.
- hypothesis 4y agoThat’s assuming that the goal is to make search better and not say make more money.
- Nextgrid 4y agoA lot of spammy SEO garbage has ads and analytics which are often Google’s, so there’s little incentive to ban these websites.
- remus 4y ago> Adding an explicit up/downvote would capture some additional information, but it would overlap with the above, and most users would ignore the button. I’d guess Google has at some point experimented with this and found it wasn’t worth keeping. Sounds pretty ripe for abuse too.
- q-big 4y ago> Sounds pretty ripe for abuse too. civilized wrote (emphasis by me): "and Google enhances its ranking for me based on that".
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- EugeneOZ 4y agoIt obviously doesn't work, otherwise stackoverflow ad-filled copies wouldn't exist.
- bmacho 4y agoCan you give me some? I love stackoverflow content, but hate the surface, e.g. how it loads jquery from google (???) and if I disable it, then the content breaks, because obviously the only way to implement a toggleable div is when you send your users browsing history to google directly..
- EugeneOZ 4y agoYou can find much more than just "some" here :) https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter
- echen 4y agoNote that it's often difficult to tell if these signals are good or bad. For example: 1. Clicking on a link is often a negative signal. If you're searching for "when was barack obama born?", hopefully you get the answer on the search results page itself, so you never have to click. Or, the caption for each search result should have a snippet containing the answer. 2. If you stay a long time on the search result you click on, is it because the information is hard to find or because the page is deep and useful? I used to work on Search measurement at YouTube and Facebook, and run a human evaluation platform now. Here's an example what they can look like when you use high-quality raters: https://demos.surgehq.ai/google-vs-bing/ https://demos.surgehq.ai/google-vs-bing/
- cmroanirgo 4y agoNot exactly true. Most people would infrequently use the buttons, but when they do, you can be sure they want it that way. I would suggest that the big reason not to go down the avenue of social buttons is the inevitable gamification of it. Already we have have ratings farms for apps and amazon. Of course we will have similar if search implemented this.