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It's annoying as hell because Google promotes "freshness" over quality. You can get a very high position in Google by knocking off someone else's tech news stor
by scholia 12y ago
It's annoying as hell because Google promotes "freshness" over quality. You can get a very high position in Google by knocking off someone else's tech news story while removing half the facts and adding nothing of any consequence, as long as your do it quickly. This kind of blogspam also vanishes quickly, but only after the damage has been done.
Meanwhile anything that might actually be worth reading is somewhere around page 10...
- slfnflctd 12y ago> Meanwhile anything that might actually be worth reading is somewhere around page 10... ...much like the way things were in 1997 with Google's predecessors. Funny how despite exponentially more layers of code running (with eons of iterative advances), it all still somehow comes full circle.
- mreiland 12y agoIt's an interesting observation that agrees with my experience as well.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoI feel like I keep seeing this all around. It seems that there's a point in the product after which any further optimization to "extract more value" actually degrades things. Comapnies need to learn when to stop messing with their product further and focus on something else.