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Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#41
post #9

Hopefully this helps when looking for genuine product reviews / suggestions. The only way to get half-decent reviews at the moment is to append "reddit" to your search query, otherwise you get pages full of comparatives that haven't tested any of the items they recommend.

And I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before Reddit stops caring and allows more and more bots, content farms, or paid posts on their platform.

Got bad news for you… it’s a huge outlet for content writers.

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#42

Cool, so will the relevant wiki page, which is almost certainly both the most linked to and most desired page for almost all "thing" searches, go back to being result #1 instead of buried under content farms, copyspam, and Medium trash?

Wikipedia doesn't run AdSense.

Content farms run AdSense.

Google algo updates have revenue as one of the core metrics.

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#43

Thanks Google. Now can we fix the recipes pages please. No one wants the back story for the "the best brownies", I want to know the ingredients, cooking temps (Celsius and Fahrenheit) and time.

I feel like these "back stories" will get even more important for a high ranking if Google prioritizes "content by people, for people"

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#44

Cool, so will the relevant wiki page, which is almost certainly both the most linked to and most desired page for almost all "thing" searches, go back to being result #1 instead of buried under content farms, copyspam, and Medium trash?

Maybe we’ll finally get recipe pages where the recipe isn’t buried under 2000 words of drivel just to bump the SEO score

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#46
post #32

I'm not sure this whole drive towards 'original content' makes sense. It encourages people to make long rambling pages that don't get to the point In fact it seems like Google worked better when wikipedia was almost always the first result on various topics What I mean by rambling is if you type something like "types of oranges" and suddenly land on a page where some dude is clearly just filling up paragraphs for goo…

My impression is that this update is specifically about deranking those types of pages

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#47

>Better ranking of original, quality content Hah. Just another day, someone sent me this link[1] which took images and text from my page[2] for the Google query "linux check disk space". Here is the thing my page doesn't even appear on Google. The ripped page points to the source[2] and has a link back to the original images. These scammers know how to game Google with their AI-driven sites, and they adopt it faster…

cnr.it is a domain which belongs to the Italian Research Council, and that subdomain seems to be a blog by the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems. These are not scammers, it's probably an amateur researcher which published that information in a blog which is usually read by no-one. Probably it wasn't even meant to be public. But because of the prestige of the domain, it becomes first in relevant searches.…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Research_Council_(Ita...

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#48
> tackle content that seems to have been primarily created for ranking well in search engines rather than to help or inform people

By my understanding, this should hopefully cause Pinterest pages to disappear from image searches too, but by my experience, they're a big site so Google will have made an exception for them.

And it should likely deal with those StackOverflow 'clone' sites which sometimes rank better than StackOverflow itself.

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#49
On YouTube, there is an option called "Don't recommend channel". I wonder why Google doesn't have a similar option. Or even better, a "Recommend me this website as the first option" button. It would useful to avoid spammy sites and to benefit the good ones. To avoid gaming the algorithm, Google can't take this data into account to benefit/punish websites on search results. The button has the only purpose to customise the user experience one by one. Over time though, and organically, spammy sites would get less traffic. Eventually, they would be forced to shut down (lack of ad revenue).

Re: More content by people, for people in Search

#50
Well, I am excited to see the impact of this.

These days there is no shortage of tools that monitor SERP fluctuation, and if this update brings about _significant_ impact it will be talked about everywhere.

And I fully expect spammers to go ballistic once their content gets obliterated.

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