The Age of PageRank Is Over
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The Age of PageRank Is Over
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Re: The Age of PageRank Is Over
#2Reject modernity, embrace tradition: we're going back to user curated indexes like it's the 90s!
Time to join a web ring.
Re: The Age of PageRank Is Over
#3Reject modernity, embrace tradition: we're going back to user curated indexes like it's the 90s! Time to join a web ring.
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Re: The Age of PageRank Is Over
#4It’s about time. Google results are so full of promoted and sponsored content that you must use tricks to get past it. Even so most of the best things are no longer findable via Google even if you know what you are searching for!. I’ve been using Kagi for a few weeks now and really like the results. I signed up for a paid account to support their progress.
Re: The Age of PageRank Is Over
#5I find myself still using Google for searching the web a lot, however, maybe 2% is the classical website search.
It’s mostly to find an image, a video, a location on maps, etc.
I wonder if Google could turn things around by rethinking the search experience. They’re still the fastest first stop on your journey to find something on the web. But the behavior has changed dramatically that a change in their UX alone could really make a big impact. Maybe moreso than just an algorithm change.
I once redesigned the search experience of a large global ecommerce company. The UX changes alone grew their revenue quite a substantially and reduced customer complaints.
Re: The Age of PageRank Is Over
#6It has been for a long time.
PageRank was never designed for adversarial scenarios.
It reminds me of KPIs like lines of code - it's only useful if it cannot be manipulated.
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Re: The Age of PageRank Is Over
#7Honestly not sure if search engines are the future at all, at least for commercialisable content.
More and more I find myself searching through moderated social media like Reddit or Facebook Groups/Marketplace for product recommendations or local services.
Gave Kagi a go, but it seemed to be even worse than Google for what I tried.
Re: The Age of PageRank Is Over
#8There are a lot of public articles stating that PageRank is no longer in top signals any of the mainstream search engines for more than a decade now. The patent already expired years ago and no one cared. It's surprising CEO of a search engine company just woke up to this. The future of search is AI model-as-index infrastructure.
Re: The Age of PageRank Is Over
#9The age of orcs has begun
Re: The Age of PageRank Is Over
#10I've always wondered why Google doesn't have some way to provide an explicit signal from the users like favorite/bookmark or explicitly like/dislike a search result.
It's often pretty fustrating to try and find something you know you've seen before but don't remember quite the name of or exact keywords.