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I understand what you're saying, and while I'm sympathetic to that position, you've gotta lay a lot of that at the feet of spammers who try every trick they can
by kstrauser 2y ago
I understand what you're saying, and while I'm sympathetic to that position, you've gotta lay a lot of that at the feet of spammers who try every trick they can think of to fill the results with crap. The same thing happened with email. Maybe I want my doctor to send me information about, I don't know, herbal cholesterol treatments, but she can't because they get caught in a spam filter.
Countless terabytes of junk web content make it hard to find the needle in the haystack. Frankly, I don't want to see that low-value part of the web. Every time it shows up in search results, that's one less decent result appearing on my screen. I suspect that anyone who says they want to see everything doesn't really appreciate what everything means. There will never be a page on Experts Exchange that I want to see. I'll never be grateful for a result from answers.com. Although those sites are capable of creating useful information, their business model been to dump a ton of junk on search engines with the hope that people accidentally click on it so they can make some ad money. I picked on them because I can name them off the top of my head. There are a million sites just like them. And none of them have anything to offer me whatsoever.
I'd hate for Google's changes to remove the site maintained by that expert kid in Tampa who has precisely the answer I need, along with part numbers and wiring diagrams. If Google has to nuke the Experts Exchanges and answers.com of the world so that the Tampa kid's site does start showing up, yay!