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Also it would by hypocritical that it would block sites with ads but likely have to use ads to generate revenue. As the owner of a search engine I can tell you
by drakaal 13y ago
Also it would by hypocritical that it would block sites with ads but likely have to use ads to generate revenue.
As the owner of a search engine I can tell you search ain't cheap.
- robertjwebb 13y agoYeah. Also, how do you computationally distinguish between a commercial and non-commercial site? Loads of grey areas.
- drakaal 13y agoOur Natural Language / Language Heuristics Engine can do this. We do to a small extent now, we haven't gone whole hog because I'm not sure I agree that commercial sites shouldn't rank. For things we determine to be reference searches we downrank sales pages, for things we determine to be shopping searches we uprank them.
- robertjwebb 13y agoWhat product are you developing the engine for?