I never understood why Google isn't blocking these crap results, it's really making my experience of search really bad for a light of my searches
Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
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Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a long time now, Google has weighted behavioral signals similar to what you describe. "Bounce Rate" is the percentage of users who quickly leave your site after clicking. "Dwell Time" is the amount of time a user spends on a page. There's even a cottage industry around gaming these signals. See SerpClix and the like.
So how come pinterest is still on top with many searches?
Why not? Pinterest is a popular site, with lots of content all linked to each other. Many people probably spend a long time there after clicking a result.
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#23I use Kagi as a search engine and can just block the site from the search results.
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#24I use Kagi as a search engine and can just block the site from the search results.
I started using Kagi recently, and so far haven't had to block a single site. Their filters are great!
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#25I really don't like these websites and I smash that back button as soon as I realize I've landed on one. That said I'm amazed they are still showing up at the top of google search. My understanding was that that kind of behavior (which I think at least some other people do too) combined with the fact that they are just copying another much higher page ranked website would mean that they are highly unlikely to rank ab…
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Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#26Cool idea! I was surprised that Wikipedia mirrors aren't included, as I encounter them constantly and they drive me bonkers. I opened an issue: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter/issues/2...
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#27I never understood why Google isn't blocking these crap results, it's really making my experience of search really bad for a light of my searches
Do they do a good job at getting clickthroughs on Google ads on their site? :-/
Does the rate of ad-clicking on the results page increase if most of the "natural" results are crap? :-(
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not even the first or second time Google has rolled out changes that allowed SEO spam sites copying Stackoverflow or Wikipedia to rank higher than the original. They did fix this at one point in time by figuring out which site posted the content first and penalizing the copycats, but it appears the fix is once again broken.
I figure they must just be monitoring the original content and republishing it before it’s indexed by google. The searches are so specific and niche that generally ranking isn’t hard it’s beating the og that’s hard. I just don’t know how they are managing to get indexed before the big name established sites. Perhaps they are succeeding on some small percentage and that is what we are seeing? Perhaps they have an addi…
I find that hard to believe, the SO questions are often years old, the GH ones months.
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#29I've been using uBlacklist which adds a little block this site button to the google search results. Handy. It is a browser extension and I haven't looked too deeply into it so if that's important to you perhaps have a browse over their repo etc before installing.
I use that too, great for blocking pinterest from flooding all of your google image search results.
Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
So how come pinterest is still on top with many searches?
Why not? Pinterest is a popular site, with lots of content all linked to each other. Many people probably spend a long time there after clicking a result.
The inordinate amount of time to click away all of the dark ui login screens just to see the content before making the decision its not what you wanted already increased the dwell time to longer than other sites.