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No, but can you explain the distance to Ankara one?
by encoderer 4y ago
No, but can you explain the distance to Ankara one?
- inerte 4y agowell now you're making me doubt myself, that's a weird one too. My first guess was "they need to know how far one request is from another, and Ankara is a good as any city" So say suppose you're in New Orleans and I am in San Jose, now we can compare our distance, because geographical distance usually equates to cultural differences and perceptions of quality.
- sam_lowry_ 4y agoThey have a Turkish version, so I guess this props up Turkish results to requests from Turkey (granted, Ankara is not exactly in the middle of the country ;-)
- stilldyl 4y agoAnkara is the nearest city to Kırşehir, considered by some to be the geographical centre of the world (as viewed on a typical flat map).
- thrwyndx 4y agoAnkara is the capital of Turkey. For RU, UA & BY locales they have separate ranking models for queries from their capitals, but not for TR. Maybe, guessing, they did not have enough data to build two TR models and this additional input feature was good enough
- RugnirViking 4y agothere was exactly one other similar one (Distance to Madagan) which is a random russian town. So I think it might be deciding which of their datacenters should serve the request?
- ogurechny 4y agoIt is a bit funny to see people trying to guess the meaning of something which is a common knowledge elsewhere. Puts a perspective on all the talk about “modern, global, connected, automatically translated world”. For a decade and a half, Yandex has had a codename for each big revision of search ranking algorithms and release of new search features. Most were city names, and Magadan was one of them. So “distance” is probably a distance to some rating introduced in that release. Whether it is a positive or negative factor (cutting obvious over-optimized sites), I have no idea.
- baybal2 4y ago[dead]