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PageRank is basically worthless at this point. Its baseline assumption, that keywords and in-links correlate with relevance, is now broken. The vast majority of
by chongli 4y ago
PageRank is basically worthless at this point. Its baseline assumption, that keywords and in-links correlate with relevance, is now broken. The vast majority of stuff out there is SEO'd and link-farmed to death. If you want to find anything relevant with PageRank these days, you first need to find a way to filter out all of the spam. This is why search is so hard now.
- metadat 4y agoImpossibly difficult and resource intensive? Sounds like we need a reset of some kind.
- rightbyte 4y ago> find a way to filter out all of the spam It is the same spam sites I see again and again. A manual blacklist from one puny FTE would probably clean up the wast majority.
- graftak 4y agoThey could even crowd source this by allowing users to block domains from search results, which should affect its ranking long term.
- jpindar 4y agoAs with so many things, they used to do this then inexplicably stopped.
- anticensor 4y agoYou can use -inurl:example.com
- nikanj 4y agoBut that would involve hiring a human. Google's prime directive is "Never hire a human do a job well, when you can train AI to do the same job badly"