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repo1
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What is wrong with google these days.
When ever I search for something like a washing machine or maxtor hard drive or nearly any "product" all I get is this pricegrabber and dealtime type crap and auto generated pages with lists of useless links or consumer review pages with no reviews and more useless links.
What search engine do u guys use?
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Mutantius
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yeah lots of crappy sites but I usually find what I need..
"Why don't you zip it, Zipfero?" - fraich3
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incoma
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I use google to find anything I want, and if I cant find it.. I press the back button and search again..
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spankie
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Hitman02
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google all the way the best
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razor1394
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I've always found what I'm looking for with google. You need to isolate the search and put up more search options and more key words.
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I've never had any probs with Google. It always gives me what I want within the first page or two. Haven't used another search engine in the last 3 years. This may or may not be the case with you, but I tend to find that people who can't find what they're looking for usually don't know how to refine their searches properly.
What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? - Bill Hicks
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TheDamned
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Never had any problems with Google yet tho.
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Subject reminded me: Used google for quite some time last night trying to find help on disassembling a KitchenAid Stand Mixer. Finding much more pertinent stuff using Yahoo already. Google is seeming commercialized.
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Also if you want an exact search put quotes around it, then it will only match that entire string.
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Cheez-It
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| Posted: Thu, 6th Jan 2005 22:46 Post subject: |
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I've actually noticed the increase in these sites too, but it isn't googles fault, it's not like they're paid to make them appear...
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It is Google's fault in a way, in that it is their algorithm that these websites are abusing to get top rankings.
Google has always been about relevant search results - they are no longer delivering these for many search queries, so their algorithms need to be worked on.
Of course, they'll still get abused so the question is really whether it is worth the bother. It makes my job as a web developer and SEO guy a nightmare though.
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Cheez-It
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hehe yeah, it's their fault in that sense, but then again, i'd imagine pretty much any algorithm would allow an exploit, unless they filtered certain sites, but I mean, who decides what sites to filter... maybe they should give users that option... would make it cleaner
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| kgrandpa wrote: | It is Google's fault in a way, in that it is their algorithm that these websites are abusing to get top rankings.
Google has always been about relevant search results - they are no longer delivering these for many search queries, so their algorithms need to be worked on.
Of course, they'll still get abused so the question is really whether it is worth the bother. It makes my job as a web developer and SEO guy a nightmare though. |
It's this very same algoritm which has made them the most popular search engine in the world. As with many other IT companies, they are a victim of their own success. Once you become the leader of a particular field then people will try to exploit your business. A perfect example of this is Microsoft - even though they get a lot of bad press about security it wouldn't be half as bad if so many people didn't use Windows. If Linux had the same popularity then I'm sure it would be exploited almost as much. It's just the way it is.
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