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Re: A list of directories posted here

  • Subject: Re: A list of directories posted here
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 15:22:47 +0100
  • Newsgroups: alt.internet.search-engines
  • References: <MPG.1d066065a5f12e8b7c@news.btopenworld.com> <429c53e2$0$322$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com> <d7hr5l$ovp$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk> <3g3clbFaere1U1@individual.net> <d7i3t1$rg1$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk> <3g5rt0FanooeU1@individual.net> <d7kfvu$2lo9$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>
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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Jez wrote:
> 
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> Jez wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>>What's more, I wanted to mention that Google exclude (or are about to
>>>>>exclude) directories from their engine.
>>>>
>>>>Roy, would you mind quoting a source for the above information please?
>>>>
>>>>That would be a very dramatic U turn for google as it seems to prefer
>>>>directories above all else in some SERPs.
>>>>
>>>>Jez.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It took me like 5 minutes to find the URL for you, but here it is:
>> 
>> Thanks for finding that Roy. I appreciate your time!
>> 
>> It's very interesting and I wouldn't mind betting that the root of this
>> is what is disrupting sites hit by "bourbon". Changing the weight given
>> to directory listings and clones of DMOZ.
> 
> The reason I oppose this is two-fold:
> 
> 1. The original writers have nothing to protect them from this plagiarism.
> If some lady in Berkshire wrote in her Geocities homepage about how to
> cook blackberry pie and she then found a copy on a PR7 dot com site, would
> she sue?
> 
> 2. Search engines penalise for duplicates. How will the SE's know which
> one is the original? It is more likely that the Geocities page is owned by
> a low-profile person who mirrored a popular page.
> 
> It is easy to get visitors to a site. One can just automatically archive
> newsgroups, but where has all the fun gone?
> 
> Roy

Oops. I was consciously referring to a different thread titled 'Page Rank is
back' from May 30th. I think that my arguments still hold though.

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz
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