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But the web is different; google much less so. There is no "old google search", because almost everything to search through is noise and spam. PageRank made us
by mjburgess 4y ago
But the web is different; google much less so. There is no "old google search", because almost everything to search through is noise and spam.
PageRank made user preferences as signalled by hyperlinks the key signal of quality. Who really hyperlinks any more? And how many, by percentage, are non-automated etc.?
The web this works for is one of forums & personal websites. It's hard to say that today there are any properties of websites that are a reliable signal of quality.
Hence the proliferation of voting sites (such as HN, etc.) which are little more than search engines augmented with reliable signals of user preferences.
- permo-w 4y ago>But the web is different; google much less so. There is no "old google search", because almost everything to search through is noise and spam the commenter is not referring to the search results, they're referring to the interface not having all the wank that google packs in to optimise for profit >Who really hyperlinks any more? who doesn't?