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My theory is that one of the inputs to Google's ranking algorithm is now "how much money would we make from this click?" A click to SO has a small number of ad
by minutillo 4y ago
My theory is that one of the inputs to Google's ranking algorithm is now "how much money would we make from this click?" A click to SO has a small number of ads which are obviously ads and easily ignored. A click to the average scrape-jacked SO page has dozens of ads using every dark pattern in the book to generate accidental clicks.
- fluidcruft 4y agoOne of the other commenters above made the claim that SO runs yahoo ads. If that's true then from a Google perspective, the click has either zero or negative money-making value. Maybe that means we should be searching in yahoo rather than google.