From e034da0225f15a5c69105e3cc664ea8d1ea30779 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seirdy Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 01:03:27 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] New note: on a more selective Google --- content/notes/on-a-more-selective-google.md | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/notes/on-a-more-selective-google.md diff --git a/content/notes/on-a-more-selective-google.md b/content/notes/on-a-more-selective-google.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b48112 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/notes/on-a-more-selective-google.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: "On a more selective Google" +date: 2024-07-19T01:03:27-04:00 +replyURI: "https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-now-defaults-to-not-indexing-your-content/" +replyTitle: "Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content" +replyType: "BlogPosting" +replyAuthor: "Vincent Schmalbach" +replyAuthorURI: "https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/" +#syndicatedCopies: +# - title: 'The Fediverse' +# url: 'https://pleroma.envs.net/objects/931a72b0-09e9-42c8-b727-7b7a029b791c' +--- +Selectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pages full of ads, trackers, scripts, and even SEO. However, Google's selectivity can't penalise such criteria as that would conflict with its ad business. + +Google has a bias against new sites. This makes sense, given their spam potential. I disagree with your argument that a bias against new sites is a pivot away from [Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT)](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content): it takes time for a website to become an authority and earn trust. If delayed indexing of new sites is wrong, then the problem lies with EEAT. I argue that EEAT is a good framework for an answer-focused engine, but a bad framework for a discovery- or surfing-focused engine like Marginalia or Wiby, respectively. +