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Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

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Re: Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

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Post by richjdsmith »

znpy wrote: post #217

Remember that DuckDuckGo exists and its search results are pretty good.

I've been using DDG since around January this year and am continually blown away by how infrequently I need to turn to "The Big Guys" (Google, Bing) to find something I didn't find on DDG. It's been maybe half-a-dozen times relating to forums on some obscure software package?

That combined with DDG showing the top StackOverflow result inline on my search has kept me a very happy DDG user.

Re: Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

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Post by bhhaskin »

hungerstrike wrote: post #197
klez wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean a meta-engine? Like Duckduckgo? Or you actually mean an app you can install?

Does ddg use google results? I have read that they do not.

They use Google's index I believe, but that is not the same as using Google's results.

Re: Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

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Post by tiatia123 »

hartator wrote: post #248
tiatia123 wrote: post #246

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well, website.com/product=11 became website.com/myfavoritejeans

This is called product pages, cart will be website.com/my-cart or something in the like.

so, should we have done a 301 for every product?

Seems to late now.

Re: Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

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Post by hartator »

tiatia123 wrote: post #254
hartator wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is called product pages, cart will be website.com/my-cart or something in the like.

so, should we have done a 301 for every product? Seems to late now.

Yes 301s for each products to new page is ideal.

I don’t do SEO for other companies, but I can take a look at your analytics data, and make a couple of suggestions if that can help. PM me.

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Post by KMag »

dalbasal wrote: post #155
andrewmcwatters wrote: post #151

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This is already frequently true depending on what you're looking for.

They probably do this the way Google usually does, some sort of probability of similarity. They don't know for sure if a picture is pornographic, or a piece of audio is fair use. Once they reach acceptable accuracy, in their calculus....

A lot of stuff falls into grey areas both for AI classification and human opinion. Let's not forget that humans disagree widely over what's pornographic and what's fair use. Let's not pretend there's a canonical oracle of pornography or (apart from court rulings) what's fair use. It stinks when their AI is clearly wrong or when you disagree with their AI, but it's hard to fault them for setting some accuracy goal when they're trying to hit a fuzzy target anyway.

Maybe your complaint is really that their appeals process is too opaque or difficult. There I agree, but I don't fault them for stopping short of perfect on their AI classifiers.

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Post by 1123581321 »

burger_moon wrote: post #172
dleslie wrote: post #153

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We did this for similar reasons; the documentary and edutainment selection ran dry, and the children's section had a terrible signal/noise. Now we've been without any TV or streaming services for about six months, and relying on a Kodi box and my collection of ripped DVDs. We spend more time together as a family.

Documentaries just don't pay the bills and I think it's killed off a lot of potential for good content. Chris Bell is someone who I heard talk recently on a podcast about this. He makes documentaries and discussed how hard it is just to break even making a documentary because of how Netflix/HBO/etc structure deals and vendor lock in.

Can you please link to the podcast or summarize how the deals are structured?

Re: Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

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Post by kalleboo »

Naga wrote: post #230
digi_owl wrote: post #152

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Really glad i switched to DDG for my random searches (i can always do a !g if i feel that the results are meaningless).

I switched to DDG permanently because of their other bangs. I am a baseball fan and regularly use FanGraphs to look at stats. If I google a baseball player, FanGraphs isn't even on the front page. Instead, I have news articles about him, tweets from him, and a bunch of other sites. With DDG, I can simply go "!fg jose bautista" and get exactly what I want. It really has saved me a lot of time and effort. Same thing wi…

Do other browsers not have site search in the address bar? In Safari, after visiting "fangraphs.com" once, I can just type "fang Some Name", press the down arrow to select the first suggestion, hit enter, and it searches that site.

Re: Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results

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Post by acct1771 »

arcticfox wrote: post #162
codedokode wrote: post #116

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If they cannot determine which site is legal then they should not be playing with sites' ranks.

They are the owners of the ranking algorithm, they should do whatever they want that's not in itself illegal.

Libel laws.
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