Ironically this post is doing wonders for its page rank, as people are linking to it in the comments

▲ dang 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

  <a href="https://oneuptime.com/blog" rel="nofollow">https://oneuptime.com/blog</a>

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641348

(By coincidence, see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641829)

▲ Retr0id 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Now that we have better ML, maybe we could take "link sentiment" into account too.

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oliveroot 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think they have something better - “link rank” which essentially takes into account the quality of backlink.

I believe it is nuanced enough to have different rank per “topic”, or “keyword” etc. but admittedly just kinda guessing from the outside.

The last time I tried to build something like this I realized it’s useless without first having a gigantic amount of data already crawled. When I started crawling I realized I would never catch Google. I think without Wikipedia the LLMs might have taken 10 more years to surpass them.

	▲	cyanydeez 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Crawlers would need to use backlinks but also rank vector similarity to ensure the linked content matches the linked intent. Some kind of rainbow shades of how relevent the link is to the linkee and reverse.

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zahlman 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't know how good it was, but sentiment analysis was definitely a thing pre-ChatGPT.

	▲	Retr0id 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It was pretty basic though, and even a frontier LLM might struggle to infer that OP is a negative-sentiment link, without sufficient context.

▲ Aurornis 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

rel=nofollow is used to signal that links should not be used by search crawlers for authority calculations on most sites with user-submitted content, including Hacker News.

You basically have to use nofollow for comments otherwise your site becomes a big target for SEO link spam.

▲ politelemon 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder if we ought to be flagging it then? There's already so much uninteresting AI slop observations.