I found it interesting that the docs mention "site2vec" scores. This implies, I think, a variant of word2vec or document2vec, but for the full site; so probably a vector sum of the doc2vec scores of all individual pages?
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a user of Kagi and search.marginalia.nu I can tell you: Quite a bit. So much that now that I have what "everyone" asked Google for for years - that is blacklists - I hardly use them. Why? Because with Kagi I get much better results out of the box. I am fairly sure Googlers will tell me there are multiple safeguards to prevent the inclusion of Google ads from affecting ranking, to which I just have to say that the…
Kagi is simply reselling google search results.
They do more than that: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have been thinking a lot about Yahoo (pre yahoo-search, largely) lately. I don't fully understand how we lost the curated catalog, especially considering the success of Wikipedia. The latter demonstrates users willingness to curate knowledge bases... We have "awesome" lists, but I rarely seem to use them.
Yahoo directory was largely pay-to-play and very affected by proto-SEOs trying to game the system for direct traffic or PageRank value. Collaborative directories like dmoz.org suffered the same fate before shutting down.
Pay-to-play is actually a very decent business model for a directory, though. Pay a one-time fee, establish that you're a legitimate business or website, undergo a quality assessment, and you're in. There's no paying for extra promotion, e.g. with ads, and website owners don't need to warp their sites in anticipation of what they think the search engine wants. (Which often results in a decrease in usability, e.g. all of those recipe sites with low-quality 2000-word essays before they get to the actual recipe.)
It's a more level playing field, and it's intrinsically more human-friendly.
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#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a user of Kagi and search.marginalia.nu I can tell you: Quite a bit. So much that now that I have what "everyone" asked Google for for years - that is blacklists - I hardly use them. Why? Because with Kagi I get much better results out of the box. I am fairly sure Googlers will tell me there are multiple safeguards to prevent the inclusion of Google ads from affecting ranking, to which I just have to say that the…
Kagi is simply reselling google search results.
They have many sources https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...
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#195Most of the factors in ranking a page are no surprise. But i was surprised that having Product reviews on your site is apparently a demotion? Surely, many people are searching to find just that?
most of these have been outright publicly denied by Google employees, despite people showing with A/B tests that things like CTR and backlinks impacted rankings
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#196Most of the factors in ranking a page are no surprise. But i was surprised that having Product reviews on your site is apparently a demotion? Surely, many people are searching to find just that?
We are, but I’m not sure there are any real product reviews left on the internet.
Other than reviews of Google search itself obviously
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#197This just proves all the "suspicions" privacy-conscious users have had about large corporations fingerprinting users, often in very obvious ways. There's often no better place to find ideas for surveillance than the people conscious about being surveilled.
Many of the SEO suspicions were confirmed too. I found it VERY amusing if you go to r/SEO just yesterday there were moderators and flaired users (you know, the elites of the SEO community, lol) insisting much of this was "debunked" years ago. They of course deleted their posts, but the threads are still up. What a den of scammers over there. https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1d1eqjj/comment/l5tvfw... https://www.…
SEO is vandalism and I one day hope the majority of Internet users see that
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#198FYI, it's much easier to read the linked GitHub code via the published docs at https://hexdocs.pm/google_api_content_warehouse/0.4.0/api-re...
In particular, https://hexdocs.pm/google_api_content_warehouse/0.4.0/Google... Notably, for people on HN, it looks like there is indeed an internal initiative to promote small personal blogs :-) > smallPersonalSite (type: number(), default: nil) - Score of small personal site promotion go/promoting-personal-blogs-v1
We don’t know whether that particular module was used to promote or downgrade small sites in the SERPs.
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#199Sometimes I wonder how much better the internet would be hits on Google weren't directly tied to revenue from Google itself through its ad program. I am certain Google has made the internet and the world a worse place to live.
As a user of Kagi and search.marginalia.nu I can tell you: Quite a bit. So much that now that I have what "everyone" asked Google for for years - that is blacklists - I hardly use them. Why? Because with Kagi I get much better results out of the box. I am fairly sure Googlers will tell me there are multiple safeguards to prevent the inclusion of Google ads from affecting ranking, to which I just have to say that the…
I was excited to try Kagi, but I couldn't justify the cost. I find DDG with the occasional Google search to function almost as well. I'll try Kagi again at some point, but it wasn't the panacea people here made it out to be
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Did you experience the Internet before google? The idea of a world where Alta Vista won is truly chilling.
You mean a world where people still knew how to use a library catalog, still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still out there? The internet is boring. And the trash is still there. Its just become reputable instead.
> still relied on more than one source of information and curious crazy tid bits are still out there?
I think the curious crazy tid bits are still there.