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 BrikoX   ( @BrikoX@vlemmy.net )  to World News · 2 years ago

Protests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search results—and Google knows it

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Protests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search results—and Google knows it

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 BrikoX   ( @BrikoX@vlemmy.net )  to World News · 2 years ago
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cross-posted from: https://vlemmy.net/post/317922

Alternate title: Google admits Reddit protests make it harder to find helpful search results

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    You know, that makes me wonder if someone could figure out the old google search algorithm, and use it to make a new, more useful search engine.

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      IIRC PageRank was patented, so it’s public, and at this point the patent is surely expired.

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        A lot of the cost is data storage. Unfortunately, I doubt any party will replace old Google.

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          Storage isn’t as expensive as it used to be, especially if you were to only store text. I feel like nowadays the main costs would be bandwidth and processing, since there are many more websites out there, and they’re much bigger, full of many more scripts to make sense of.

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