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3. I expect there might have been a malicious campaign to click on results, because that raises them

Wed Dec 28, 2022, 07:04 AM

Dec 2022

If a dozen people, maybe with bots, relentlessly click on a particular lower-ranked result, the algorithms raise it in prominence.

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