depreference

Verb

depreference (third-person singular simple present depreferences, present participle depreferencing, simple past and past participle depreferenced)

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.2008 October 23, Josh Karlin, Stephanie Forrest, Jennifer Rexford, “Autonomous security for autonomous systems”, in Computer Networks, volume 52, number 15, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC...
   • 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.2012 September 18, Benjamin Edwards, Tyler Moore, George Stelle, Steven Hofmeyr, Stephanie Forrest, “Beyond the blacklist: modeling malware spread and the effect of interventions”, in NSPW '12...