Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results
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Re: Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results
#2They're not passing the "best refrigerator" test yet:
Re: Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results
#3They're not passing the "best refrigerator" test yet: http://blekko.com/ws/best+refrigerator
Did you try adding /reviews ? Sometimes we can deliver better results without the user doing anything different from what they're used to doing, but not always.
Re: Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results
#4can anyone explain what bayes and mfa mean? I picked the site http://www.basemetals.com/ (bayes (spam 8.6 > 5.3)) at random, and although it won't win any design awards I can't see what the problem with it is. Am I missing something?
Re: Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results
#5Why is http://www.deadmau5.com/ marked as spam?? Its obviously not.
Re: Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results
#6can anyone explain what bayes and mfa mean? I picked the site http://www.basemetals.com/ (bayes (spam 8.6 > 5.3)) at random, and although it won't win any design awards I can't see what the problem with it is. Am I missing something?
I guess Bayes refers to running a Bayes-based classifier[1] on a certain site in order to infer the probability that it is a "bad"/spam one.
On the other hand, I have no idea what mfa means.
Re: Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results
#7Two big problems with automated spam blocking are: false positives and changing domain names.
For the second one, how often do you revise your blocked links? what if it changed owner and the new one doesn't provide spam.
For the first one, is even one false positive tolerable? Will you deny someone presence in your index because you failed? And if so, how do you handle challenges?
Re: Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results
#8can anyone explain what bayes and mfa mean? I picked the site http://www.basemetals.com/ (bayes (spam 8.6 > 5.3)) at random, and although it won't win any design awards I can't see what the problem with it is. Am I missing something?
mfa = Made for Adsense. That means we believe that the domain seems designed more to show ads than to provide content.
bayes = our Baysian analysis gizmo thinks bad things about this site's content. Too much Viagra, not enough content. Like all artificially-intelligent things, it can sometimes be hard to see why it's upset.
Re: Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results
#9Wow, the search results are terrible on blekko. I think someone's gone crazy with the ban hammer.
My suggestion to blekko: look for signals of relevance to determine serps, instead of flagging every other website as spam.
Re: Blekko already has a list of domains to block from results
#10nice. if I had to guess, in a couple years, google will attempt to acquire blekko to integrate with their webspam team.