Given how site owners habitually attempt to distort reality with tag stuffing and other bullshit metadata, what do you expect? Reality is not what is printed on the tin.
Should I ask Walmart to kindly start relabeling products on their shelves because what’s on the tin is rarely as good for me as what the maker purports?
Maybe that’s what we need. An FDA metadata label for every website served, kinda like the fav-icon, but useful.
- Readable word count (protein)
- Ad count (fats)
- Image count (carbs)
- Embedded script size (the list of nasty sounding chemicals it contains)
- Average data transmitted (sugars)
- etc
Must be shown in black text on white background with a black border. Sorry dark mode guys.
Rather than showing the actual reviews, just lower the color saturation for lower reviewed products. So high reviewed products would pop in a sea of gray scaled items.
Sounds like something out of Black Mirror, but could be interesting.
How could that work out? Low quality sites usually have more juicy ad spots?
More seriously: incentives are stacked against search quality these days. Poor results means more trips into ad laden wastelands, and more returns to the ad laden search results page.
Giving people the result up front and center would directly affect quarterly profit I am afraid.
At least this is the model that makes most sense to me.
The next most probably is machine learning is already out of control and the people who created it left.
Maybe that’s what we need. An FDA metadata label for every website served, kinda like the fav-icon, but useful.
- Readable word count (protein)
- Ad count (fats)
- Image count (carbs)
- Embedded script size (the list of nasty sounding chemicals it contains)
- Average data transmitted (sugars)
- etc
Must be shown in black text on white background with a black border. Sorry dark mode guys.