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Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by bick_nyers »

nlh wrote: post #36
minimaxir wrote: post #4

The post alludes to it, but one of the targets here is AI-generated content. > We’ve long had a policy against using automation to generate low-quality or unoriginal content at scale with the goal of manipulating search rankings. This policy was originally designed to address instances of content being generated at scale where it was clear that automation was involved. > Today, scaled content creation methods are mor…

And I’m reading this to say they can’t reliably detect whether something is AI-generated or not, so they’re not going to try. Whether human or AI or otherwise procedurally generated, sounds like they want to target this kind of low quality long tail search stuff.

I believe it's more about manipulating pagerank with networks of "fake" websites.

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by krade »

oven9342 wrote: post #150
pkoird wrote: post #28

I would really love for Google to provide advanced search capabilities or filters to superusers who know EXACTLY what they are searching for. I wouldn't even mind paying for it tbh.

I would really love Google to let me ban certain domains like photo banks which feel attacked by Google searches. I’m not paying Google any money though. And $10 a month is over my budget

used to be possible around 2011-2012 but worked too well so was obviously removed.

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by SushiHippie »

amf12 wrote: post #109
ajhurliman wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a monthly subscription that apparently a lot of people are willing to pay for, feels like an honest business which is shocking in tech.

How much is "a lot"? The HN bubble doesn't count.

Nearly 24k paying users and ~400k searches per day

https://kagi.com/stats

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by scotty79 »

carlosjobim wrote: post #200
scotty79 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's no lasting "paid, without ads" model. There's only "free, with ads" and "paid, with ads eventually". https://www.amazonforum.com/s/question/0D54P000079nP9wSAE/ho...

There's no lasting pizza either, because tomorrow it has been eaten. So you should never buy a pizza or any other food, because after a while it has literally turned to shit.

free with ads seems to be lasting business model

Re: New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search

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Post by ReadCarlBarks »

siproprio wrote: post #195
ReadCarlBarks wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need to use a separate extension to filter out search results. You can use this tool to generate filters for uBlock Origin: https://letsblock.it/filters/search-results

Is there a cli tool for that? I have over 300 domains in my ublacklist list.

You can try using ChatGPT or a similar tool to apply the same pattern to all domains in your list with a prompt like:

    "Use this pattern:

    example.com##a:has(.b)

    to create separate rules for these domains:

    example.net
    example.org
    ..."
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