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Your experience is scary-pleasant. Perhaps someone should start a peer-reviewed list : why-google-blacklisted.me where the top voted ones would stand a chance o
by chdir 12y ago
Your experience is scary-pleasant. Perhaps someone should start a peer-reviewed list : why-google-blacklisted.me where the top voted ones would stand a chance of getting reviewed by non-bots at Google. In all likelihood, a situation like this gives nightmares to entrepreneurs on a daily basis.
Edit: Another recent similar incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8873149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8873149
- lingben 12y agoSo in essence you want thousands of people to volunteer their time and energy to do the work that a multi-billion dollar corporation should be doing in the first place? "Don't be evil" at this point is a punch line
- chdir 12y agoYou didn't give an alternate solution? Someone mentioned here there's a million to 1 user to engineer ratio. As much as I would want Google to fix the issue, I don't expect that happening anytime soon. If all of us can collectively help the community fix bugs then why not? Just like countless other crowdsourced intelligence tools (e.g. wot browser extension, ad blockers etc.).
- lingben 12y agoIsn't it obvious? The alternative solution is that google takes responsibility for the quality of their search results and actually pays people to work on it. I know they like to pretend that everything is automated but we all know it clearly isn't. And no, they don't need to hire a $300,000 a year engineer to do this work. You don't need advanced programming knowledge or experience to be able to judge whether a website has a real case when they submit a reconsideration request.