Anti-Gamergate site Gawker to be wrecked by Google's new "Fact-based" algorithm

[LJ_Reloaded]

Anti-Gamergate site Gawker to be wrecked by Google's new "Fact-based" algorithm

http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/03/g...-new-fact-based-search-algorithm-says-google/

Gawker To Be Penalized By New ‘Fact-Based’ Search Algorithm, Says Google

Under a new “fact-based” search rankings system currently under development by Google, one of the most popular websites for celebrity news would fall far down the ranks of “trustworthy” sources of information.

Gawker — the Manhattan-based, media-focused news website that pulls in an estimated 22 million unique views monthly — is one of a number of “gossip websites” that could suffer major absences in search queries as a result of Google’s “Knowledge-Based Trust” system, according to researchers at Google.

Gamergaters are celebrating this big hit to Gawker, but while I despise Gawker, I gotta say this isn't going to go well for Anti-Gamergate, Gamergate, or a hell of a lot of other websites that are far less partisan than these two groups.

Google deciding what is 'fact' and what isn't, is not a good thing.

People are going to discover the monstrous drawbacks of this new algorithm within just a month of it going online.

 

[Magnetron]

Google already sucks.

It can't get much worse.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Google already sucks.

It can't get much worse.

It just did get orders of magnitude worse.

 

[Magnetron]

It just did get orders of magnitude worse.

I meant that Google already sucks for people using it to search.

The results are littered with irrelevant garbage, despite all their algorithm tweaks to date that have eliminated webspam and redundancy.

And severely limited, whittled down from 1,000 results retrieved to anywhere from 300 to 600.

400 to 700 potentially relevant websites are being completely ignored per query compared to a decade ago.

Google has already been spoon feeding you results it deems "relevant to your needs" for 5+ years now and it is done this by purging a wide variety of lesser known to obscure websites from its index.

Monstrous drawbacks of a "fact-based' algo?

Only if you get your news from tabloid rags filled with gossiping bloggers.

And only if Google is your search engine of choice.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Personally I find it hilarious that LeJackass is using the Daily Caller as a source for anything resembling fact.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

I meant that Google already sucks for people using it to search.

The results are littered with irrelevant garbage, despite all their algorithm tweaks to date that have eliminated webspam and redundancy.

And severely limited, whittled down from 1,000 results retrieved to anywhere from 300 to 600.

400 to 700 potentially relevant websites are being completely ignored per query compared to a decade ago.

Google has already been spoon feeding you results it deems "relevant to your needs" for 5+ years now and it is done this by purging a wide variety of lesser known to obscure websites from its index.

Monstrous drawbacks of a "fact-based' algo?

Only if you get your news from tabloid rags filled with gossiping bloggers.

And only if Google is your search engine of choice.

Google has made it next to impossible to search for various things on sites that aren't updated. Which heavily favors Kim Kardashian over, say, sites that deal with basic mathematics, etc.

But what other search engines are even popular?

 

[Magnetron]

Google has made it next to impossible to search for various things on sites that aren't updated. Which heavily favors Kim Kardashian over, say, sites that deal with basic mathematics, etc.

But what other search engines are even popular?

None.

But the more useless Google and other search engines become, the less people use them.

And people definately are using them less, mostly because they cater to established sites that surfers already know exist. Wikipedia. YouTube. Amazon. Netflix. Hulu. Twitter. Facebook. Instagram. SnapChat. etc.

Google and Bing/Yahoo are making their search engines obsolete through their own arrogance and ignorance.

 

[AngeloMichael]

heh, gamergoiters still think they have any relevance or credibility...cute

 

[badbabysitter]

Personally I find it hilarious that LeJackass is using the Daily Caller as a source for anything resembling fact.

he's just saying what his right wing masters tell him to say

 

[Liar]

Google has made it next to impossible to search for various things on sites that aren't updated. Which heavily favors Kim Kardashian over, say, sites that deal with basic mathematics, etc.

But what other search engines are even popular?

Now I'm curious what sort of search term would give you Kim Kardashian when you were looking for mathematics.

 

[Liar]

heh, gamergoiters still think they have any relevance or credibility...cute

The sad thing is, this could have been a real thread about Google, if LJ hadn't lead with tying it to Rageaholic Twitter Drama (TM).

 

[PayDay]

The sad thing is, this could have been a real thread about Google, if LJ hadn't lead with tying it to Rageaholic Twitter Drama (TM).

Nope. These posters don't even know how to use a search engine.

It had a better chance at being a real social media drama thread, also, it (the thread) is entirely based on speculation.