2010: The Year Information Pollution Takes Off
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Re: 2010: The Year Information Pollution Takes Off
#2huh... What little I read was interesting, yet I was constantly distracted by the sheer volume of huge, brightly colored ads or labeling. Talk about information pollution.
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#3There is already way too much Information Pollution: for example, I read less than 10% of HN and other blogs/news sites have similar proportion.
Re: 2010: The Year Information Pollution Takes Off
#4huh... What little I read was interesting, yet I was constantly distracted by the sheer volume of huge, brightly colored ads or labeling. Talk about information pollution.
I was constantly distracted by the sheer volume of huge, brightly colored ads or labeling. Talk about information pollution.
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#5Shouldn't Google optimize it's search to find the best content, and not the other way around.
I just think it's ridiculous that Google's ranking system needs to be gamed if you want your content to be found.
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#6Shouldn't Google optimize it's search to find the best content, and not the other way around. I just think it's ridiculous that Google's ranking system needs to be gamed if you want your content to be found.
I just think it's ridiculous that Google's ranking system needs to be gamed if you want your content to be found.
Why? It's just an algorithm. There's nothing magic or special about it.
Re: 2010: The Year Information Pollution Takes Off
#7Shouldn't Google optimize it's search to find the best content, and not the other way around. I just think it's ridiculous that Google's ranking system needs to be gamed if you want your content to be found.
that is not logical because everyone wants their content found and there are only 10 spots on the first page (and adding more results per page does not fix the issue)
At some point you need a way to rank the sites
Re: 2010: The Year Information Pollution Takes Off
#8Shouldn't Google optimize it's search to find the best content, and not the other way around. I just think it's ridiculous that Google's ranking system needs to be gamed if you want your content to be found.
Google's algorithm only "needs to be gamed" if your content is unworthy or undesirable.
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#9While I agree with SEOBook that Demand Media and their ilk are the story of the year in large scale content production and optimization, I disagree that this necessarily ushers in a new generation of low quality content in the SERPS.
Long tail search results have always been about "good enough" content as opposed to superior content. Why? Because there isn't enough volume to support superior content production at the tail.
As a searcher, I don't care if I'm looking at good enough search results / content from a niche player, or from a big company like Demand Media.
And if Demand has found an efficient way to own a big chunk of the previously fragmented long tail of search, hurray for them.
You could almost make the case that one company with economies of scale is MORE likely to be able to afford to produce quality content for low volume queries than the thousands of displaced niche publishers.
Re: 2010: The Year Information Pollution Takes Off
#10huh... What little I read was interesting, yet I was constantly distracted by the sheer volume of huge, brightly colored ads or labeling. Talk about information pollution.
I was constantly distracted by the sheer volume of huge, brightly colored ads or labeling. Talk about information pollution. http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/
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