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What should Google do in this situation? I fully understand them murdering Rap Genius in their indexes, but it also hurts Google since Rap Genius actually has
by Greenisus 13y ago
What should Google do in this situation? I fully understand them murdering Rap Genius in their indexes, but it also hurts Google since Rap Genius actually has the best content.
First result for "jay-z holy grail lyrics"
Google: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jayz/holygrail.html http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jayz/holygrail.html
Bing: http://rapgenius.com/Jay-z-holy-grail-lyrics http://rapgenius.com/Jay-z-holy-grail-lyrics
The Bing result is better (though both are valid).
I would suspect that most sites pulling these sort of SEO scams are going to have lousy content, so the rule makes sense, but perhaps there should be some sort of human element to it as well? That's not scalable, though, so I'm not really sure what the best answer for Google is on this one.
- ceejayoz 13y ago> What should Google do in this situation? I fully understand them murdering Rap Genius in their indexes, but it also hurts Google since Rap Genius actually has the best content. It helps them in the long term, as it dissuades sites from using blackhat SEO if they know their company can suffer severely for it
- dkuntz2 13y agoIs the Bing result really "better"? Lots of people would rather not have the annotations... Additionally, with AdBlock on, AZLyrics makes only 21 requests and takes 1.03 seconds to load completely on my machine. RapGenius (still with AdBlock on) takes 27 seconds to load, with 208 requests. Based solely on that I'd rather use AZLyrics than RapGenius.
- Greenisus 13y agoYeah, I suppose it's subjective. I personally think the RapGenius result is better, but you make a valid point about the performance and simplicity of the AZLyrics result.