Meaning of depreference | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“Tiktok^([sic]) won't just starve⟳ performers of the "free" attention by depreferencing them in the algorithm, it will actively punish⟳ them by failing to deliver⟳ their videos to the users who subscribed to them.”

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