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This is a cute idea, but there are some genuinely useful sites this winds up skipping over. Wikipedia is a great resource for quickly understanding a topic enough to drill down in to more precise research. Where I see this being useful is searching for current events. For example a search for a local double-shooting I've been following returned some information I hadn't seen before. It would probably be good for them…
One simple tweak I wish I could do in google would be to eliminate search results based on broad criteria. For example, no sites that have a product for sale, no sites that repackage contents from other sites, no sites that include a given word, no sites that serve adds.
> buy hoes -sex -porn
One simple tweak I wish I could do in google would be to eliminate search results based on broad criteria. For example, no sites that have a product for sale, no sites that repackage contents from other sites, no sites that include a given word, no sites that serve adds.
You can instruct Google not to include sites with a given word by prefixing the excluded words with a dash. For ex: > buy hoes -sex -porn
I’ve always wanted to see a search engine thar takes the top SEO tips and penalizes sites that use them. For example searching for how to grow a garden. I never want to see howtogrowagarden.com. I’d prefer to find more genuine l, non seo juiced advice.
Problem is that SEO is tied to appearing relevant, so to penalize SEO is to penalize relevancy. Splitting SEO from relevancy is often a matter of making better search Searching for least-relevant can be pretty random: it's easy to point at the center of a circle, but the edge of the circle is not a point
and since SEO is abused for pageviews i.e. apparent relevancy, this penalizes SEO abuse.
I love the idea but if this gets popular I guarantee the content-farm/SEO assholes will figure out how to be on the first results page -- registering a boatload of domains is the obvious countermeasure, there are probably many others.
Having worked for Demand Media, seo people will always find a way. It’s always going to be a cat and mouse game, sadly.
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Problem is that SEO is tied to appearing relevant, so to penalize SEO is to penalize relevancy. Splitting SEO from relevancy is often a matter of making better search Searching for least-relevant can be pretty random: it's easy to point at the center of a circle, but the edge of the circle is not a point
by your own words, since SEO is tied to appearing relevant, penalizing SEO peanlizes apparent relevancy. and since SEO is abused for pageviews i.e. apparent relevancy, this penalizes SEO abuse.
The venn diagram between SEO and user satisfaction is gradually being compressed into a circle by Google as they improve their algorithm.
SEO is already basically human oriented now- anyone selling mumbo jumbo SEO magic now is a crank. It used to actually work quite well.
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You can instruct Google not to include sites with a given word by prefixing the excluded words with a dash. For ex: > buy hoes -sex -porn
Yes, but the rest is not solved by that. Google has really let the search game slide for a while.