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What is wrong with Livestrong.com? Isn't that for bike races and raising money for cancer?
You'd think, but it's actually a Demand Media content farm. Livestrong.org is what you're probably thinking of (Lance's foundation website). http://www.demandstudios.com/health-writing-jobs.html
(Give a bit of a new twist to all those yellow wrist bands, doesn't it?)
I assume that when you block a site, Google are sent the search term as well as the site you blocked. Assuming that this is the case, it isn't very helpful to search for 'mahalo.com' and then block mahalo.com. What do you think should rank higher than mahalo.com for the term mahalo.com? A better approach would be to install the extension and continue as normal, and then next time you search for "convert int to string…
No, Google is only sent that you're blocking the domain. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218528
I assume that when you block a site, Google are sent the search term as well as the site you blocked. Assuming that this is the case, it isn't very helpful to search for 'mahalo.com' and then block mahalo.com. What do you think should rank higher than mahalo.com for the term mahalo.com? A better approach would be to install the extension and continue as normal, and then next time you search for "convert int to string…
No, Google is only sent that you're blocking the domain. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218528
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No, Google is only sent that you're blocking the domain. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2218528
But it's only clickable from a search page on Google. Can't they correlate the data pretty easily?
1) if google ever starts using this data as a signal in their search algorithm, do you really think demand media is going to give up, or do you think they are going to start moving their content on the 500k+ domains they own, effectively making it impossible to deal with the problem.
2) list-sharing seems to be starting an arms race where spammy sites start pushing their own lists that include all of their competitor's sites but not their own. (i am not accusing the OP of doing this, but i think its best for each user to choose individually.
if these sites really have such egregiously bad content, then users should very quickly be able to decide for themselves when a site should be blacklisted.
I find it ironic that this list includes adsense ads with three things totally irreverent to the content.
i think there are some unintended consequences with blacklist list-sharing: 1) if google ever starts using this data as a signal in their search algorithm, do you really think demand media is going to give up, or do you think they are going to start moving their content on the 500k+ domains they own, effectively making it impossible to deal with the problem. 2) list-sharing seems to be starting an arms race where spa…
if needed, i am sure demand can cut deals with sites that you probably wouldn't want to blacklist. in the end, search engines are going to have to figure out how to send users to good pages, on a page by page basis.
i think there are some unintended consequences with blacklist list-sharing: 1) if google ever starts using this data as a signal in their search algorithm, do you really think demand media is going to give up, or do you think they are going to start moving their content on the 500k+ domains they own, effectively making it impossible to deal with the problem. 2) list-sharing seems to be starting an arms race where spa…
I shared my domains simply to save people time. If you disagree with one of the results, by all means don't add it to your block list. Adblock lists have been similarly helpful--I make some customizations but I don't have to start from scratch.