depreference

Verb

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...
   • 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...
   • In reality though, the circumstances for the scenario of blocking or 'depreferencing' a malicious Web page are different. - 2015 August, Huw Fryer, Sophie Stalla-Bourdillon, Tim Chown, “Malicious web pages: What if...