depreference

verb

Etymology

From de- + preference.

  1. derived from preference
  2. prefixed as depreference — “de- + preference

Definitions

  1. To cause something to stop being preferred by a search engine algorithm.

    • We predict from this experiment that depreferencing short-term routes would have little negative impact in practice, as most affected routes are misconfigured, non-optimal routes discovered during convergence, or attacks.
    • In a related intervention, Google has successfully pushed ad-filled sites down the results by changes to its search-ranking algorithm, suggesting that a similar effort to depreference malware-infected sites is technically feasible.
    • In reality though, the circumstances for the scenario of blocking or 'depreferencing' a malicious Web page are different.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for depreference. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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