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Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

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Post by lumost »

brimble wrote: post #27
mcfedr wrote: post #21

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

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? :-(

I've noticed a recent trend where the copy cat/adware sites are "up-ranked" relative to original content. This would be the expected behavior of a search engine optimizing for clicks and revenue.

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

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Post by hlbjhblbljib »

cmroanirgo wrote: post #5

Missing from the title is: > Specific to dev websites like StackOverflow or GitHub. Before I noticed that, I had searched for pinterest and found nothing. Even marking the HN title with "dev" would be good. If this were my list I'd add w3schools because to me, it's low quality, especially compared to mozilla.

> I had searched for pinterest and found nothing

So it's working as intended and blocking low effort spam sites

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

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Post by Quenhus »

dawnerd wrote: post #38

FYI whoever made this, you can create clickable links to import filters. For example: https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=https://raw.gith... Quick edit: I know the domain is ABP but ublock origin picks it up.

That's actually really cool, thanks! However, the link don't work from HN for me. For the link to work, users need to click from a trusted domain listed here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/bba4732c6b47134c3f54e...

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

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Post by blacksmith_tb »

ChefboyOG wrote: post #17
blacksmith_tb wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not sure how GOOG weighs what happens after you click on a result, it would be clever of them to notice how quickly you click on another result for the same search and slightly downgrade the first link (though, what happens if you open the first three links into new tabs before you actually visit them, say). My assumption was that they just counted clicks as an upvote, so if these scammers can make it into the f…

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 are you suggesting that GOOG is using bounce rate on the target site (assuming it uses gAnalytics I take it - otherwise how would they know?) to alter the ranking of search results (like "90% of users bounce in the first two seconds on scam.copycat.com/seemed-useful so we're demoting its rank by 20%"?) That would be interesting, I was musing more about if GOOG does any session tracking on their end to try and infer how happy/unhappy users are with a given set of results. Of course they could do both at the same time.

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#47

Post by Beaver117 »

hughrr wrote: post #37
giancarlostoro wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of going to Google Images, and getting sent to Pinterest... which is not where the image is sourced out of.

Pinterest is one of those sites that really makes me want to strangle someone. It’s just an abhorrent walled garden of other people’s property.

Why doesn't someone sue them then?

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

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Post by reillyse »

dtech wrote: post #28
reillyse wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So how are they doing it ?

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#49

Post by gorhill »

Quenhus wrote: post #45
dawnerd wrote: post #38

FYI whoever made this, you can create clickable links to import filters. For example: https://subscribe.adblockplus.org/?location=https://raw.gith... Quick edit: I know the domain is ABP but ublock origin picks it up.

That's actually really cool, thanks! However, the link don't work from HN for me. For the link to work, users need to click from a trusted domain listed here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/bba4732c6b47134c3f54e...

From 1.41.5b2 and above, it works on non-"trusted" sites with right-clicking the link, there will be an entry on the contextual menu to import the list.

For older versions of uBO, you can already use the old way:

    abp:subscribe?location=[...]

Re: Filters to block and remove copycat-websites from DuckDuckGo, Google and other

#50

Post by aspenmayer »

gorhill wrote: post #49
Quenhus wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's actually really cool, thanks! However, the link don't work from HN for me. For the link to work, users need to click from a trusted domain listed here https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/bba4732c6b47134c3f54e...

From 1.41.5b2 and above, it works on non-"trusted" sites with right-clicking the link, there will be an entry on the contextual menu to import the list. For older versions of uBO, you can already use the old way: abp:subscribe?location=[...]

Hey, it’s the creator! Thanks for uBO.
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