The actual underlying problem has changed altogether. Pagerank is easily gamed by SEO.
Search candidates and rankings now require assessment by LLM. Moreover, as a default, users want the results intelligently synthesized into a text response with references rather than as raw results.
Crawling too requires innovative approaches to bypass server filters.
I doubt any independent person can afford to run a vector database or LLMs at immense scale.
Search candidates and rankings now require assessment by LLM. Moreover, as a default, users want the results intelligently synthesized into a text response with references rather than as raw results.
Crawling too requires innovative approaches to bypass server filters.
I doubt any independent person can afford to run a vector database or LLMs at immense scale.