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...it doesn't "deserve" the top slots any more than any other content. I thought the whole deal with inventing Page Rank and all these smart indexing algorithm
by Lagged2Death 12y ago
...it doesn't "deserve" the top slots any more than any other content.
I thought the whole deal with inventing Page Rank and all these smart indexing algorithms - the whole raison d'être for Google - was exactly because some content was more deserving than other content.
When I do the search for "maybe there is a god," MeFi doesn't show up until page 8 now. The first two pages of results are virtually all videos and lyrics related to a single 12-year-old Christian pop song.
Which is available for sale on Google Play. Hmm.
- Lagged2Death 12y agoOne thing I wanted to mention earlier, didn't have time: The pop song that comprises the first two pages of results for the "maybe there is a god" search is actually called "Mabye There's A Loving God." That's close to the search text, but it's not an exact match. The MeFi page mentioned in the article contains the exact phrase "maybe there is a god" in the title. And it shows up on page eight of my search results. That is ridiculous. You can argue that MeFi wasn't singled out on purpose, that algorithms change and there are bigger benefits elsewhere that I'm not seeing in this case and blah blah blah, and I don't know about any of that. No opinion. But I think you're going to have a hard time arguing that these search results are in any way more accurate, more relevant, or better than the older results were. And that is very much of a piece with recent, more general criticism of Google's search: That it's simply not as good, not as useful, as it used to be.