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Just an example: recently I made a search about korean pilots. Nothing controversial. First page results were all big media. In particular I noticed an article
by sarcasmOrTears 8y ago
Just an example: recently I made a search about korean pilots. Nothing controversial. First page results were all big media. In particular I noticed an article on NYT which was a badly made summary of a blog post that perfectly answered the question in the original search and it was even linked as source. Yet this blog wasn't even in the first page of results, but it would have been years ago.
And that's true for all kind of queries. We always get those pathetic summaries made by big media of much better blogs by small companies and normal people who it seems don't deserve the first page anymore (despite being the original creators of so much quality content thst get rewritten by the big media).
And let's not start on how inaccurate results are when a search is even slighly controversial.
Google shifted from being a web search engine to a promoter for big media companies. They should start advertising the company as such instead of lying to consumers.
- nolok 8y agoActually, it probably would have been even worse in the old days of page rank rules all. I guarantee you that there is a lot more relinks to the NYT article than to its source. Are all of the news article pointing to the blog source ? Yes (well not even that actually). But the rest of the web, the reddit, the facebooks, the twitter, the everything points to the news article on NYT, Fox, ...