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Google algorithm change launched
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#72While I applaud such an improvement, I still despair over Google's inability to handle context. For instance the search phrase 'tex decorative rules' is totally miss managed. First it overrides the search and changes tex to text. Humorously enough, when you counter override back to tex, the search is even worse. We won't even speak of what happens when you change tex to latex--- porno doth ever rise to the top I gues…
tex is a hard one. And [latex decorative rules] is even trickier--most people wouldn't expect technical documentation if they just saw that as a random query. That's more of an issue to pass on to the synonyms team and not in the scope of this change, but I'll pass this one on to the right folks
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#73Is this change restricted to programming-related queries only? I noticed today that a search for "mubarrek london" returns a page of results where every result on the first page, besides the top one, is spam from www.88searchengines.com, www.30searchengines.com, www.70searchengines.com, etc. I know this might not be related to topic of scraper sites directly, but not sure how else one can easily report these types of…
I can't seem to replicate this: http://i.imgur.com/kDwPd.png Are you sure there isn't something else going on?
Perhaps it's related to location, it's reproducible with incognito search (to make sure no personalized settings are being applied): http://i.imgur.com/Yd7FN.png
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#74Hey matt, thanks for the update I wanted to know how would it work in this case:
http://www.google.com/#q=major+online+dating+sites+koopa&...
We submitted an article to ezinearticles from our blog.koopa.com. Just wondering how our blog is not remotely listed but ezine which we posted are article through our blog has? How does this work when our authors submit to article directories?
On that same note I notice a bunch of other sites just below which have copies ezines article to the tee and are ranking higher then the our original blog that posted it.
Is this related to the current algorithm change or just that our blog may not be indexed yet? Thanks for the update once again. I love the fact that you and the google team are constantly updating and changing your algo to give value to rightful content owners.
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#75Matt, this is great news. How about sites that rank well with no content, just navigation? Here's an example: http://www.collegegrad.com/entryleveljob/entrylevelaccountin... It's generally a high quality site, but that page has absolutely no relevance to the query except for a title tag and some internal anchor text. The search terms aren't even on the page. If I remember correctly, it used to rank #1 for "accounting…
I notice that you run a competing site to collegegrad.com - namely onedayonejob.com. Obviously you are likely to have paid attention to some of the things your competitor has been doing. But are you sure you're not just using this as an opportunity to stick it to them? If so, that would strike me as a distasteful use of this forum, especially since Matt has been very gracious to give this opportunity to the HN commun…
Even if they were direct competitors with the exact same market and product (Which they don't appear to be), that could mean that he's got a much better idea of how his competitors may be doing spammy things then we do. Since these are algorithmic changes not site specific changes any resulting fix would get applied to his own site as well.
The motives here don't offend me.
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#76thanks matt this is awesome!
now if i could only get java 1.6 javadoc to show up, instead of java 1.4.2 javadoc, when i type in any arbitrary java class name.
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#77Is this change restricted to programming-related queries only? I noticed today that a search for "mubarrek london" returns a page of results where every result on the first page, besides the top one, is spam from www.88searchengines.com, www.30searchengines.com, www.70searchengines.com, etc. I know this might not be related to topic of scraper sites directly, but not sure how else one can easily report these types of…
I can't seem to replicate this: http://i.imgur.com/kDwPd.png Are you sure there isn't something else going on?
http://cd34.com/mubarek+london.png
I get similar results as he does, with personalization, and, in Incognito mode.
Re: Google algorithm change launched
#78Is this change restricted to programming-related queries only? I noticed today that a search for "mubarrek london" returns a page of results where every result on the first page, besides the top one, is spam from www.88searchengines.com, www.30searchengines.com, www.70searchengines.com, etc. I know this might not be related to topic of scraper sites directly, but not sure how else one can easily report these types of…
Tried the query and was able to replicate this https://skitch.com/techsutra/rm3gb/mubarrek-london-google-se...
Re: Google algorithm change launched
#79Is this change restricted to programming-related queries only? I noticed today that a search for "mubarrek london" returns a page of results where every result on the first page, besides the top one, is spam from www.88searchengines.com, www.30searchengines.com, www.70searchengines.com, etc. I know this might not be related to topic of scraper sites directly, but not sure how else one can easily report these types of…
Tried the query and was able to replicate this https://skitch.com/techsutra/rm3gb/mubarrek-london-google-se...
Re: Google algorithm change launched
#80Is this change restricted to programming-related queries only? I noticed today that a search for "mubarrek london" returns a page of results where every result on the first page, besides the top one, is spam from www.88searchengines.com, www.30searchengines.com, www.70searchengines.com, etc. I know this might not be related to topic of scraper sites directly, but not sure how else one can easily report these types of…
I can't seem to replicate this: http://i.imgur.com/kDwPd.png Are you sure there isn't something else going on?
I do see these problematic results:
http://www.tristanperry.com/pics/SpammyResult.jpg
Searching from the UK, if that changes anything.