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		elorant on July 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There was a time when search engines were a thing,... So what "really works" boils down to? Would it include ranking or not, and if so based on what? How about fighting keyword spam?

TeMPOraL on July 2, 2018 [–]

One component I would include is weighing a site down proportionally to amount of ads it loads, as in my experience it anticorrelates with quality and trustworthiness of the site.

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