<story><title>MarketRank: Anti-SEO Ranking Algorithm</title><url>https://dkb.io/post/market-rank</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guntars</author><text>What Google needs is to do is start taking explicit user feedback. If I click on something and it&amp;#x27;s a major waste of time, I want to be able to tell Google to never show me this result or the whole domain. Why can&amp;#x27;t I do this? They are happy to hoover all of my data in the name of &amp;quot;personalization&amp;quot;, but there&amp;#x27;s zero way I can personalize the results myself without resorting to insecure 3rd party extensions.</text></item><item><author>karterk</author><text>Any algorithm is going to get gamed sooner or later. The biggest problem I&amp;#x27;ve with Google ranking is this:&lt;p&gt;1. Everyone now knows that Google favors long content pieces which covers the topic in depth (what, why, when, etc.)&lt;p&gt;2. So an army of content marketing firms are writing 2000 word posts for simple topics that can be covered in 200 words.&lt;p&gt;3. As the user gets lost in the 2000 word article, trying to find what they really need, Google treats this as a positive &amp;quot;lots of time spent on page&amp;quot; signal and rewards this behavior further.&lt;p&gt;The result is people trying to now write 3000 word articles to &amp;quot;one up&amp;quot; the other already long posts dominating the first few results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xvello</author><text>That is the main value proposition for the new search engine &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kagi.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;kagi.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
Each result has a menu to block or boost the domain, to remove SEO spam, and pin relevant domains (the online documentation for that framework that always ranks below stackoverflow) to the top. So far I am loving it.</text></comment>
<story><title>MarketRank: Anti-SEO Ranking Algorithm</title><url>https://dkb.io/post/market-rank</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>guntars</author><text>What Google needs is to do is start taking explicit user feedback. If I click on something and it&amp;#x27;s a major waste of time, I want to be able to tell Google to never show me this result or the whole domain. Why can&amp;#x27;t I do this? They are happy to hoover all of my data in the name of &amp;quot;personalization&amp;quot;, but there&amp;#x27;s zero way I can personalize the results myself without resorting to insecure 3rd party extensions.</text></item><item><author>karterk</author><text>Any algorithm is going to get gamed sooner or later. The biggest problem I&amp;#x27;ve with Google ranking is this:&lt;p&gt;1. Everyone now knows that Google favors long content pieces which covers the topic in depth (what, why, when, etc.)&lt;p&gt;2. So an army of content marketing firms are writing 2000 word posts for simple topics that can be covered in 200 words.&lt;p&gt;3. As the user gets lost in the 2000 word article, trying to find what they really need, Google treats this as a positive &amp;quot;lots of time spent on page&amp;quot; signal and rewards this behavior further.&lt;p&gt;The result is people trying to now write 3000 word articles to &amp;quot;one up&amp;quot; the other already long posts dominating the first few results.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>isolli</author><text>Back in the early 2000s there was a browser toolbar from Google that allowed you to do exactly that. Maybe such a tool today would be too easy to abuse?</text></comment>