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This article whitewashes the issue by first pointing out the problem, and then making some vague hand-wavy claim that Google is providing direct answers immedia
by cpr 16y ago
This article whitewashes the issue by first pointing out the problem, and then making some vague hand-wavy claim that Google is providing direct answers immediately that obviate further search.
This is nonsense.
I think the whole world knows that for many kinds of general searches (e.g., appliance reviews when shopping), Google has been completely overrun by spammy content.
I sure hope they're working on something.
- jkent 16y agoCan you give specific examples where the search returns a lot of spammy content?
- bertil 16y agoCommon examples that are given are consumer goods, like household appliances. I tried ‘hoover‘, ‘washing machine’, ‘hair dryer‘, and I had relevant results: deep link into relevant and safe stores, both web-only and the web-arm of brick-and-mortar. However, I'm searching from abroad (France) and not in English, obviously.
- pyared 16y agoi use thefind.com for product search instead of google. they bought like.com which will hopefully help them out in this area. peter yared (author of the article above)