this post was submitted on 29 May 2024
227 points (98.3% liked)

Technology

59390 readers
2556 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 95 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Google search works now? Did they fix it?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It'll get even worse now if SEO people find out how exactly you can game the algorithm

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that ship sailed years ago.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[Updated 2024] Sailing ship, ships that sail, years-old ships, best vintage ships, top sailing ships, hot local ships in your area

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

And that is just the product title

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While this data shows what factors Google Search might take into consideration when ordering Search results, it does not reveal what the importance/”weight” of each factor is to the final ranking.

Well, phew.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

we absolutely couldn't now run a few experiments and estimate the weights from them. No that's some sorcery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Guess I'll just not use it, it's kind of already ruined with their AI bullshit anyhow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

i just saw a video where a guy was coaching a small group on how to do this on Reddit.

load more comments (3 replies)