depreference
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To cause something to stop being preferred by a search engine algorithm.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From de- + preference.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de-