It looks like the ex-DDG employee got the details wrong, and read the slides backwards.

  • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Or, another explanation is that more people are interested in things they can buy than in you (and I understand how hard it might be to believe in that), and Google algorithms “know” that

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        1 year ago

        Tbh it sounds like you didn’t search for the website, but just put the term itch.io into the search box. Special characters like a dot get completely ignored in the search, so you searched for “itch io username” which will give massively different results depending on the username.

        If you search for the site properly by using site:itch.io then Google will only show you results from that site and nothing else.

        Lots of complaints about the Google results often come down to user errors.

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          K, then why did a different search engine give me correct results while Google gave me advertisements? Nevermind that a different person in this thread is telling you they uses to work advertising for Google, and they so infact change the search results.