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Every time you enumerate another method for making a functional search engine right now, you also posit a way for it to be circumvented in an hour or two. "Oh,
by ssl-3 3y ago
Every time you enumerate another method for making a functional search engine right now, you also posit a way for it to be circumvented in an hour or two.
"Oh, it's easy! Just bring PageRank back, and flag sites that create content too fast!"
Later that afternoon: sites multiply, and individually generate content slowly
- __loam 3y agoIt does feel like people don't give Google enough credit that, even in it's current state, they still do a pretty good job in the face of basically every bad actor on the internet.
- dontupvoteme 3y agothe pragmatic solution is simply to build your own, personal, dead internet.
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- hot_gril 3y agoGoogle is at an advantage here. They can see into their own blackbox and instantly change the rules whenever they want. The abusers have to wait a while to see the results of their experiments, knowing that Google can put all that effort to waste instantly.