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And maybe we just need a new social media platform geared towards the youth ;) Unless the search engine aggressively curates it's target pages, I can't see how

And maybe we just need a new social media platform geared towards the youth ;) Unless the search engine aggressively curates it's target pages, I can't see how it wouldn't end up falling down the same trap as search engines of the past. Much like all social media sites end up overran by grandmas.

AnthonyMouse 3y ago
> Unless the search engine aggressively curates it's target pages, I can't see how it wouldn't end up falling down the same trap as search engines of the past. What it would have to do is have staff actively investigating current SEO tactics and thwarting them. This is like manual curation, except that when you see some results are bad, you investigate what caused the results to be like that, and change the algorithm so it stops working in general. For example, pick some of the known scummer sites and have automatic alerts if your current algorithm ever starts ranking them highly so you can have your engineers immediately investigate what's going on and fix it. It's like statistical sampling; even if you only have alerts for 2% of the scummy sites, you very quickly discover when there is an effective new tactic, and then very quickly shut it down for 100% of scummy sites. > Much like all social media sites end up overran by grandmas. I think this is specific to Facebook, possibly because of the real-name policy. Is TikTok or Twitter overrun by grandmas?