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Re: ridiculous search results

  • Subject: Re: ridiculous search results
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com>
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 04:28:01 +0100
  • Newsgroups: alt.internet.search-engines
  • References: <op.sq85ylul584cds@borek> <E2wke.43$8A4.7@lakeread07>
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Stacey wrote:

> "Borek" <borek@parts.bpp.to.com.remove.pl> wrote in message
> news:op.sq85ylul584cds@borek...
>> Search for pH calculation gives
>>
>> http://www.nd.edu/ ~mjm/EG112_module4_lect3/sld018.htm
>>
>> as a third hit. This is ridiculous as there is no content
>> on the page - only keyword and title.
>>
>> Google is stoopid.
> 
> Sorry, Borek but that isn't necessarily true. A page doesn't need to have
> the phrase or keywords listed on a page. A page can become relevant
> through links to it. Look up Google bombing. You didn't say if a good way
> to reach you was through your contact on the website I asked you this on
> another thread.

I think you are missing the point. Links or no links, listing of a page
without content _is_ stupid and it shows that algorithms which Google rely
on are/can be weak. 

Need I even start a discussion about comment spam, which is a result of that
nasty algorithm? Try starting your day, every single day, erasing P0ker and
V!agra comments from your pages.

...and then come Google et al. with a 'bugfix', telling everybody to change
links in pages to include rel="nofollow". I say: fix your bloody methods.
Don't tell us how to write our sites.

...but I love Google... I think... no, I do.

Roy

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Roy S. Schestowitz
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