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Protests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search results—and Google knows it (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BrikoX@vlemmy.net to c/news

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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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[–] jarfil@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Raeyin 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] jarfil@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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.