3 ms·
I know this is not a popular opinion here, but I'm not sure if I like Google reacting to what tech bloggers echo chamber talks about. Are we sure that this what
by zone411 16y ago
I know this is not a popular opinion here, but I'm not sure if I like Google reacting to what tech bloggers echo chamber talks about. Are we sure that this what is good for regular users and for the creation of quality content on the Internet? This group is not representative at all.
There seems to be enough "normal" spam in the search results that Google should be focusing on first. Just yesterday I searched for "viking dishwasher clog" and the #6 result is a .info page that is nothing but obvious spam.
I previously mentioned the issue of Wikipedia poorly regurgitating content from original creators (sometimes with attributing, sometimes without) and outranking that original page, even if it contained approachable, illustrated and in-depth article, and Wikipedia's content was much weaker. This is not something that tech bloggers will notice - they are much more likely to read Wikipedia's programming, science, math, or tech articles, which are of much higher quality than those on other topics, so you won't hear them complaining when they see Wikipedia as #1 everywhere.
Another bias I starting seeing lately is the high ranking of new Q&A sites (another focus of tech bloggers), when excellent topical forums with very good content, often exactly with the answers I needed, are ranking poorly. I’m speculating here, but I think Google’s focus on links might hurt its ability to bring up deeply hidden content from forums. These forums won’t get many links from tech bloggers and others looking for the next big thing, but they have very valuable content for many long-tail searches.