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How could you reliably filter out seo spam blogs though?

cacois 4y ago
Asking the real questions. If some magic could make a search engine that ignored all SEO spam, life would be better. I find it hard to believe google themselves are having such a hard time with the obvious cloned copies of other sites/content that now own most page 1 results. But they seem to be.
- rightbyte 4y ago
  If Google just blacklisted the top 50 or whatever SEO spam programming pages it would probably remove 99% of the spam on programming queries. I have tried with the Firefox addon and it gets better quick. It is almost always the same sites. And building up page rank takes time so it is a winning battle ... but hey! Google drives no hands!
  - FlyingSnake 4y ago
    What magical FFox addon you're talking about?
    - rightbyte 4y ago
      I think it is called uBlacklist (not the same guy as uBlock). I don't have my computer with me so can't check.
tomalaci 4y ago
Incentivize SEO for fine granularity (punish blogs that spam too many common keywords) and provide more filtering tools to users. Former is likely already done for many popular platforms along with many other tricks so you would want to have experienced people for that part. For filtering tools a good one would be adding a way to have filter lists against spammers and generally just more options to how you want to refine your search. I get that Google Search allows you to type some special keywords but I'd rather it be more user-friendly.
nodemaker 4y ago
The more something looks like GPT the lower it should be ranked. GPT can make that assessment for you in fact.
- MattDemers 4y ago
  Then it just becomes a cat-and-mouse game for someone to make a tool that "de-GPTs the copy" and then so on and so on.
- aliqot 4y ago
  I'm not trusting an AI to vet my information stream.
  - nodemaker 4y ago
    “AI” is already vetting your information stream.
    - aliqot 4y ago
      maybe for the collective-you. It's too bad there isn't a content-engine driven by one of these when you can describe an emotional outcome and it provide the content to get you there. However, if it could do that, it'd already have solved factoring and we're in deep trouble anyway.

Asking the real questions. If some magic could make a search engine that ignored all SEO spam, life would be better. I find it hard to believe google themselves are having such a hard time with the obvious cloned copies of other sites/content that now own most page 1 results. But they seem to be.

rightbyte 4y ago
If Google just blacklisted the top 50 or whatever SEO spam programming pages it would probably remove 99% of the spam on programming queries. I have tried with the Firefox addon and it gets better quick. It is almost always the same sites. And building up page rank takes time so it is a winning battle ... but hey! Google drives no hands!
- FlyingSnake 4y ago
  What magical FFox addon you're talking about?
  - rightbyte 4y ago
    I think it is called uBlacklist (not the same guy as uBlock). I don't have my computer with me so can't check.

tomalaci 4y ago

Incentivize SEO for fine granularity (punish blogs that spam too many common keywords) and provide more filtering tools to users. Former is likely already done for many popular platforms along with many other tricks so you would want to have experienced people for that part. For filtering tools a good one would be adding a way to have filter lists against spammers and generally just more options to how you want to refine your search. I get that Google Search allows you to type some special keywords but I'd rather it be more user-friendly.

nodemaker 4y ago

The more something looks like GPT the lower it should be ranked. GPT can make that assessment for you in fact.

MattDemers 4y ago
Then it just becomes a cat-and-mouse game for someone to make a tool that "de-GPTs the copy" and then so on and so on.
aliqot 4y ago
I'm not trusting an AI to vet my information stream.
- nodemaker 4y ago
  “AI” is already vetting your information stream.
  - aliqot 4y ago
    maybe for the collective-you. It's too bad there isn't a content-engine driven by one of these when you can describe an emotional outcome and it provide the content to get you there. However, if it could do that, it'd already have solved factoring and we're in deep trouble anyway.