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The Man Who Destroyed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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It's a story from April, I tried seeing if it was posted before, however it's the story about how the advertising and finance team beat the search team into submission by ousting the core person protecting it to pursue "growth" and "revenue" at all costs.

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

SearXNG is just a meta search engine. It uses Google and DDG under the hood, among others. How is it possible that it's better?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    Because the aggregated weighted result ranking provides a more useful page rank than any individual search engine, and if any search engine tries to (accidentally or otherwise) stuff specific results into the top ranks, it doesn't matter. It'll be deranked because no other engine displays those results highly. In a similar manner, it deranks targeted SEO attempts unless multiple platforms are targeted.

    Don't get me wrong, it still has its problems. For example, if the individual search engines all get a bit too samey, then it will as well.

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