Google is Broken - And I think I know how...

Wiki is going that way as well......... IMO.

Have you DUGG my article yet? If not...... Please do!!!!!

 

del.icio.us link to add with the Digg link.

 

i don't think they have got their conicle thing sorted out yet either.

i have domain/subdirectory/ cached but

but domain/subdirectory/index.html shows no cache *sigh*

have dug your atricle and it was an interesting read with good examples

 

Dugg it -- good read

 

About gets alot of their material from a Wikipedia feed. I know this because I had to submit a DMCA take down notice to Wikipedia and then found the same article on about and sent a DMCA take down notice to About. They told me they got the article from a Wikipedia feed.

 

There WAS a bug change a couple i=of days ago and it hit me HARD

 

only thing i can say for sure that happen a few days ago is my google analytics stopped working for a few hours..

and this was a good read, i seen at vb-faq already and if i can remember my name ill digg it Joey

 

Here's one I found this evening:

create object instance + php

drop that into Google. Top 3 results are Javascript but they come up because the page's extension is .php. There are also more Javascript and even a C++ article on the first page .. again it appears they are being indexed because of their .php extension (note the .php bolded in the results)

 

Thank you very much!

 

i tried searching for "web copywriting services" in google, and look who is no. 1 for that keyword: MFA Site! tsk...tsk...

 

Exactly my point. Did you Digg My article?

 

I'd probably agree with most of that. Either way on the timing issue, whenever the de-indexing happened there is no doubt that Google has indexing issues. In fact the theory holds up when you cite the fact that it's been fluctuation over time as I'm sure they've spent the last couple of months trying to fix things.

As a result of having an incomplete index in comparison to MSN and Yahoo they obviously have a smaller sample of pages to take into account when generating results or ranking sites therefore displaying less relevant results.

 

nice article - i just dugg

 

And the major spam sites are having a field day!

 

Interesting article and responses. Also Dugg it!

I think it depends on the theme of your search - most of the travel searches I do are usually relevant.

 

Sure it does. Thats why I watch the phrase vBulletin (among a few others) Its a phrase which has numerous relevant websites, but isnt targeted by spammers, nor does it have 50 big companies that are too strong to get above.. (like orbitz, priceline, american airlines, etc)

Thanks for the DIGG ---

 

Good article, Joey.

Google lost its ability to deliver the results it used to show, some time back when they 'declared war on spammers' (or was it tip up the feeding trough and force people to use Adwords?) - it really is only a matter of time before users switch to a more relevent search engine unless a big rethink is taken by the big G.

Asta La Vista, baby.

 

As quoted in my article...



Originally Posted by Matt Cutts

I heard that recently from a Googler, too. Sometimes we think of spam as strictly things like hidden text, cloaking, etc. But users think of spam as noise: things that they don’t want. If they’re trying to get information, fix a problem, read reviews, etc., then sites that like aren’t as helpful.

 

Very nice... I can digg it

 

Thank You...........