Search results/algorithm feedback

Feedback and Developments
1

I noticed that results from Remarkboard often appear higher in the search results than the sites which they copy articles from.

I think that news aggregators play a valuable role, and I have no problem with seeing links to news aggregators in my search results, but from what I can see, Remarkboard is more of a plagiarism site than a news aggregator. I don’t actually know what Remarkboard is, but it just copies entire articles from other sites without showing the source and it doesn’t add anything of value.

So I think it would be an improvement to Mojeek’s algorithm if it could find a way to rank the pages with the original articles higher than pages on sites like Remarkboard which copy the same articles without referencing the source.

2

Never heard of this until now, but it does look like plagiarism in a way.

If Mojeek starts ranking, then that changes what it is, doesn’t it? You could always use an operator to remove those results.

3

Also, that site has no terms or anything. But, you can make an account? Sketchy.

4

Thanks @Cooper. We are looking into this. If you have some examples of specific search queries that would be great here, or my email to aloe@mojeek.com.