I am working on a search engine that checks a site for affiliate links from known providers and demotes sites that have a large amount of them.
In addition:
* it demotes sites with popups (think newsletter sign ups)
* it demotes sites that block (or complain about) ad blockers
* it demotes sites with a high number of ads and favors sites with no ads
* it demotes sites using certain sketchy ad companies.
* It demotes sites that have paywalls
* It detects possible link networks and flags them for human review/removal.
* sites with RSS feeds get promoted.
* There is a toggle to hide all sites with ads or external trackers, but it is still WIP (The whole project is).
There are many other features. No idea if I am going to make it public, I created it to update my skillset. I actually thought about setting up a nonprofit and making it open source, but I haven’t decided.
In addition:
* it demotes sites with popups (think newsletter sign ups)
* it demotes sites that block (or complain about) ad blockers
* it demotes sites with a high number of ads and favors sites with no ads
* it demotes sites using certain sketchy ad companies.
* It demotes sites that have paywalls
* It detects possible link networks and flags them for human review/removal.
* sites with RSS feeds get promoted.
* There is a toggle to hide all sites with ads or external trackers, but it is still WIP (The whole project is).
There are many other features. No idea if I am going to make it public, I created it to update my skillset. I actually thought about setting up a nonprofit and making it open source, but I haven’t decided.