...by making the titles more enticing for users to click on. Doesn't seem like that great of a solution. I would rather they went the other way by prepending "[possibly spam]" or "[possibly clickbait]" to the title.
There's an arrogance to this whole process that amuses me. I can picture the dev team responsible for this code sitting in a meeting with the lead dev saying "it appears that some idiot web authors are using titles that have extra information placed in brackets! Idiots. Well, let's brainstorm possible solutions to this problem so we can protect our idiot users from this obvious menace..."
Leaving them alone and giving us back pagination of search results would solve this problem for me. Or they could demote these sites that they think need their titles rewritten in their search algorithm.
There's an arrogance to this whole process that amuses me. I can picture the dev team responsible for this code sitting in a meeting with the lead dev saying "it appears that some idiot web authors are using titles that have extra information placed in brackets! Idiots. Well, let's brainstorm possible solutions to this problem so we can protect our idiot users from this obvious menace..."
Leaving them alone and giving us back pagination of search results would solve this problem for me. Or they could demote these sites that they think need their titles rewritten in their search algorithm.