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> when I was at Google nearly all research & new features were done on the top 4B pages, and the remaining 150B+ pages were only consulted if no results in the top 4B turned up

This may help to explain the poor quality of some the results on queries I run on Google lately that return content obviously written for ranking in SEO but that have very little value.

I have 2 questions:

- What make"the top 3B+" the top ones?

- How can I "force"a search on the other 150B+ pages?




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