Google might have accidentally published docs about how Search works

Ensign_Crab , 3 months ago

“Ignore the most significant search terms and return pinterest spam.”

espentan , 3 months ago

Oh jeebuz how I loathe pinterest in my search results… “Ah, cool, there’s the photo I’m looking for some more info on…” > “Hi, I’m pinterest, you can fuck right off because there’s nothing for you here”

_haha_oh_wow_ , 3 months ago

Google search works now? Did they fix it?

onion , 3 months ago

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

MonkderDritte , 3 months ago

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.

where_am_i , 3 months ago

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

Ensign_Crab , 3 months ago

Pretty sure that ship sailed years ago.

JWBananas , 3 months ago

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

acetanilide , 3 months ago

And that is just the product title

_haha_oh_wow_ , 3 months ago

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

Mac , 3 months ago

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

Kidplayer_666 , 3 months ago

Pleeeease tell me it’s a bunch of monkeys typing on the inside

Excrubulent , 3 months ago

I mean they advertised the LLM.

bandwidthcrisis , 3 months ago

Close.

archive.google/pigeonrank/

GeneralVincent , 3 months ago

Of course it’s pigeons. We all thought Nikola Tesla was crazy, but he was just ahead of his time with Pigeon Clusters too