[throwaway81523]

> I hope Goggles can be used as a ranking signal to help default search engine deliver better results.

Ranking is already treated as predicting which of the search matches the user is most likely to want to see. Clickbait gets highly ranked because users do in fact click on it. Goggles (which sound like a great idea) apparently let you somewhat control the prior probability distribution as an input to the ranking algorithm.

I wonder what features it lets you select on. E.g. we had a thread here recently about finding useful product reviews. It would be great to have a goggle that downranks any site containing amazon affiliate links, since those are almost always basically shill sites despite being "reviews".

[oDot]

That is incorrect. Many high quality reviewers make money through affiliate links. For example, In 2020 LTT made 9% through Amazon Associates[0]

[0] https://linustechtips.com/topic/1270087-linus-media-group-ma...

[throwaway81523]

Yes there are some exceptions. Maybe I should have said "most of" instead of "almost all", but the thing is that it's common and frequent enough that I want to bypass that style of "review".