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There could be a technical reason. At this point, Google's search ranking algorithm is probably a pile of interrelated heuristics designed to maximize revenue w
by avidiax 3y ago
There could be a technical reason. At this point, Google's search ranking algorithm is probably a pile of interrelated heuristics designed to maximize revenue without sacrificing quality too much.
It would not be simple to integrate another algorithm in a revenue neutral way. The signals may be missing, and the new algorithm may overlap or interfere with several other rules, either negating or over promoting their effects.
- acdha 3y agoThere’s some truth to this but Google has highly-ranked sites which stay above the sources they’re scraping for years. It’s hard to believe that the experience wouldn’t be better at almost no cost if they were quicker to ban those spam domains or let users do so.