If this becomes popular, at some point results would disappear since unpopular sites will be pushed into the first million.
I guess the thought would that graduated to some level of critical mass. Sort of like a kickstart program for sites.
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#62I would prefer if my previous search was populated in the search box after completing a search (since I might want to try the search with a different filter).
It appears you have an "off by one issue" in the sidebar. There's always a blank entry in the list of ignored sites.
Filtering does not seem to be working (or I don't understand it). Searching on "chicken" produced the same results with 1million or 100k removed.
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#63Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index
#64I would prefer if my previous search was populated in the search box after completing a search (since I might want to try the search with a different filter). It appears you have an "off by one issue" in the sidebar. There's always a blank entry in the list of ignored sites. Filtering does not seem to be working (or I don't understand it). Searching on "chicken" produced the same results with 1million or 100k removed…
Will add that feature. Thx
Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index
#65It means that our ranking algorithms have good recall but very poor precision. We value web page connectivity more than its content. We don't know how to teach machines to evaluate web page for its merit so we hope that a large number of Twitting, Liking and Plusing non-experts will approximate single expert. Millionshort shows that this model isn't good enough.
I was able to rank for some moderately competitive terms just by paying someone minimum wage to go leave nice comments on dofollow blogs. The whole "Content is king" meme is a joke, really.
Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index
#66Doesn't make a dent in the travel site spam, unfortunately. though I might use this just to permanently remove About.com...
Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index
#67Doesn't make a dent in the travel site spam, unfortunately. though I might use this just to permanently remove About.com...
A few of the suggestions included the ability to set include/exclude sites which I think we'll add.
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#68Is it safe to assume that this is how Google's search results would look if nobody did SEO?
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#69A real serendipity engine. Absolutely great, thank you. I'm finding tons of interesting products and ideas by searching the most banal things :)
Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index
#70It means that our ranking algorithms have good recall but very poor precision. We value web page connectivity more than its content. We don't know how to teach machines to evaluate web page for its merit so we hope that a large number of Twitting, Liking and Plusing non-experts will approximate single expert. Millionshort shows that this model isn't good enough.
I was able to rank for some moderately competitive terms just by paying someone minimum wage to go leave nice comments on dofollow blogs. The whole "Content is king" meme is a joke, really.
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