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Search engines do a similar thing to measure how good a search result is. If you come back right away and click on another result then that tells them the site
by Houshalter 12y ago
Search engines do a similar thing to measure how good a search result is. If you come back right away and click on another result then that tells them the site wasn't what you were looking for.
- mwnz1 12y agoHmmm, so when I quickly open up 5 results in separate tabs, it's going to assume I didn't think much of the first 4 then?
- aswanson 12y agoYou are a statistical outlier, below the noise floor.
- nitrogen 12y agoChances are good that people who browse that way are looking for niche subjects that are equally outliers, so if there's any value to their traffic at all, search engines would do well to figure out that for X sites and Y visitors, the default browsing behavior assumptions do not apply.
- mhaymo 12y agoI imagine this could be dealt with by discarding the results when the consecutive clicks occur <5 seconds apart.