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I am surprised nobody has thought about looking into page content itself to help fight spam. If a blog has nothing except paid affiliate links (Amazon, etc.), a
by eek2121 3y ago
I am surprised nobody has thought about looking into page content itself to help fight spam. If a blog has nothing except paid affiliate links (Amazon, etc.), ads, popups after page loads (news letter signups, etc) then it should probably be down ranked.
I have actually been developing something like that, but it does more, including down ranking certain categories of sites that contain unnecessary filler, such as some recipe sites.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoResult ranking takes a lot of variables, and factors like excessive tracking and affiliate links is one of them in my search engine. You can poke around in the result valuation code here: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/master/code/features-index/result-ranking/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/ranking/ResultValuator.java https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch/blob/ma...
- freediver 3y agoKagi does this (it is one of the main ranking signals).