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> Google has no real algorithmic idea who is copying who. This is an irrelevant distraction, because Google's literal army of nearly 200,000 full time employee
by BugsJustFindMe 3y ago
> Google has no real algorithmic idea who is copying who.
This is an irrelevant distraction, because Google's literal army of nearly 200,000 full time employees, a large number of whom are Python developers, do know. Geeksforgeeks, w3schools, programiz, tutorialspoint, and python-reference.readthedocs, which all rank higher than the official documentation, are not flash-in-the-pan sites. They've been polluting the search results for literally years. Trivial manual processes at Google scale would be 1000% fine and effective.
Google could, if it gave half a shit, give every employee a Chrome browser extension that lets them manually vote on the reasonability of site rankings within known problem genres for their own searches.
- soraminazuki 3y agoI have the feeling that this very page would be downranked very fast if such an extension existed.
- rg111 3y agoHonest question: haven't people developed something akin to mental-ad-masks when it comes to Programiz, G4G, TP, etc.? Like I never ever ever click on a web ad, and can't even remember the brand it was about 3 seconds after leaving the page, whenever I see G4G, TP, etc., I never ever ever click them. At this point, I think this doesn't even reach my brain, but is handled by my spinal chord.
- MathMonkeyMan 3y agoIt does reach your brain, and it does affect you, just like a fog of gnats you've grown accustomed to still affects you. For what it's worth, the ads aren't for you. They're for anybody or anything that might click them, knowingly or not, and that's not you.