Google push down so-called "content farms"

[rpm]

Google push down "content farms"

Search giant Google has adjusted its famously secretive algorithms to push so-called "content farms" further down the lists of results that users see.

 

[grok]

Google's algorithm used to mean that the people of the internet decide which is the more popular sites. Better be ready to trust a huge corporation to make decisions for you from now on. Any of you use an alternative?

 

[VioAdmin]

I love the new move, I just had huge increase in Search engine traffic past 48hours, lol! A lot of the people that cheated for the top spot are removed, and more will be removed as time goes.

The thing is their is a group of companies in Europe who want to sue Google already stating they are manipulating the results(of course they do) so this move is a way for Google to say, "look judge, we are fixing things".

Either way I am happy so far.

 

[Valerion]

Google's algorithm used to mean that the people of the internet decide which is the more popular sites. Better be ready to trust a huge corporation to make decisions for you from now on. Any of you use an alternative?

Not really. Google started off by measuring the number of links to your site. So you start a link farm (thousands of links) and sell links to sites on it, to boost Google rankings. That's got nothing to do with "the people of the internet". And search results are useless when #3, #4 and #5 of a search for a technical problem turns out to be simply a page of links to completely unrelated sites with no actual information on it. Get rid of the link farms and the search results will be a lot more useful for me.

 

[Tjorriemorrie]

Not really. Google started off by measuring the number of links to your site. So you start a link farm (thousands of links) and sell links to sites on it, to boost Google rankings. That's got nothing to do with "the people of the internet". And search results are useless when #3, #4 and #5 of a search for a technical problem turns out to be simply a page of links to completely unrelated sites with no actual information on it. Get rid of the link farms and the search results will be a lot more useful for me.

+1

When I were developing websites for clients, it was irritating making a facebook page, twitter account, blog, etc just to boost links. Hope this dim that importance - having useless links is still useless.

There is one rule: Content is king.

 

[zamicro]

High time for this move. I hate it when I get search result quoting other site. As soon as you want more info, you discover that the site is useless.

 

[Pooky]

Not really. Google started off by measuring the number of links to your site. So you start a link farm (thousands of links) and sell links to sites on it, to boost Google rankings. That's got nothing to do with "the people of the internet". And search results are useless when #3, #4 and #5 of a search for a technical problem turns out to be simply a page of links to completely unrelated sites with no actual information on it. Get rid of the link farms and the search results will be a lot more useful for me.

+1 worst is when you are looking for drivers for instance and the results are a bunch of rubbish sites that want you to install their stupid driver programs.

 

[Hamster]

+1 worst is when you are looking for drivers for instance and the results are a bunch of rubbish sites that want you to install their stupid driver programs.

Or when you arrive at a site and they are just showing their own "search results/ads" for the same search term :/

 

[Tjorriemorrie]

Or when you arrive at a site and they are just showing their own "search results/ads" for the same search term :/

Which they steal from google

 

[Alestorm]

Google's algorithm used to mean that the people of the internet decide which is the more popular sites. Better be ready to trust a huge corporation to make decisions for you from now on. Any of you use an alternative?

Very silly paranoia of "the corporation" right here. This is a great move, content farm-type results are the worst and they usually fill up the top few spots because all they're trying to do is get Google hits instead of actually helping you.

 

[House]

This is great news! Google have been warning against these types of sites,