thrwyndx

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by thrwyndx 4y ago
You gotta measure yourself where you are standing among your competitors for research purposes. I'm sure google has yandex and bing scrapers as well.
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by thrwyndx 4y ago
Ankara is the capital of Turkey. For RU, UA & BY locales they have separate ranking models for queries from their capitals, but not for TR. Maybe, guessing, they did not have enough data to build two TR models and this additional input
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by thrwyndx 4y ago
It's old and too simple for today's web, everyone knows it and everyone games it. But the idea behind it is still useful, just need more tricks, more ML etc.
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by thrwyndx 4y ago
Testing is easy with any half decent development setup. You should have some train/eval datasets and monitor metrics on them during training, this is ML 101. And do live A/B experiments for launch candidates. Maintenance sure is h
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by thrwyndx 4y ago
A lot of these factors depend on internal yandex data, serp clicks especially - good luck getting those outside of yandex prod, and those are the strongest signals.
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by thrwyndx 4y ago
They absolutely do
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by thrwyndx 4y ago
Well, why would it downgrade pagerank which is based on web graph connectivity? You're not changing the graph in any way with your click, no? But Google definitely tracks such short clicks and considers them a bad signal, very importan
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by thrwyndx 4y ago
You throw them into a machine learning model together with a big dataset of queries/urls annotated by humans for relevancy. Catboost is yandex's choice of model here. > and doing it with an acceptable latency Lots of interestin