Banditoseo
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- Jul 17, 2016
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I saw a clip of Rick & Morty on YouTube. I've never seen it, so I went to look for it online.
Spoiler: AdultSwim has it all online for free. Hulu shows it, too. This is a softball in search terms, the actual sources are extremely high authority.
Here's Google:

Upsell, infringement, infringement, actual site, infringement, authorized copy, infringement.
Bing gets this right. DuckDuckGo gets this right.
What in the shit is wrong with Google? It's like the Holocaust searches again: dubious, low-authority websites with poor design easily outrank the legitimate, high-quality result.
Two questions:
Spoiler: AdultSwim has it all online for free. Hulu shows it, too. This is a softball in search terms, the actual sources are extremely high authority.
Here's Google:

Upsell, infringement, infringement, actual site, infringement, authorized copy, infringement.
Bing gets this right. DuckDuckGo gets this right.
What in the shit is wrong with Google? It's like the Holocaust searches again: dubious, low-authority websites with poor design easily outrank the legitimate, high-quality result.
Two questions:
- Why is this happening, and what can we learn from it?
- What are the odds of Google tinkering with the algorithm to fix this general problem?