ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Depreference

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Depreference is a verb meaning To cause something to stop being preferred by a search engine algorithm.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.
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.

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