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168 points fueloil | 2 comments | 21 Dec 24 14:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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daft_pink ◴[21 Dec 24 18:39 UTC] No.42481334[source]▶

I don’t quite understand why they don’t just let trusted users manually rate search results and feed that through AI to determine ranking penalties similar but not exactly like Kagi.

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1. tensor ◴[21 Dec 24 18:42 UTC] No.42481356[source]▶

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Probably because they prefer a ranking order that promotes sites with more of their ads or some such, and/or causes users to spend more time going through results looking at more ads.

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2. schmidtleonard ◴[21 Dec 24 18:55 UTC] No.42481447[source]▶

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> The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.

- Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine

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