A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web

Post by gregpilling » Wed, Dec 01, 2010, 6:44 AM UTC

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #15

inerte wrote: post #12

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nofollow is a bad idea and I wish Google stopped using, Matt. You can't trust people saying "these are not bad guys". Anyway, shouldn't getsatisfaction reward good customer service? You're just saying it's their problem to filter what's bad, for their your's users.

"nofollow is a bad idea and I wish Google stopped using, Matt." Note that rel=nofollow is just a mechanism to indicate to search engines "Please don't give this link weight in computing reputation or search results." If you're talking about a website that is doing shady things, that's a perfect time to use the rel=nofollow attribute if you link to that website.

no why is there no rel=badsite tag to indicate that you dislike a page/website?

Post by asnyder » Thu, Dec 02, 2010, 11:17 PM UTC

jeremyjarvis wrote: post #29

chunkbot wrote: post #10

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But you're both wrong . In a search for "designer sunglasses", a reputable site is more relevant than a scam site. It's Google that has to change, not the user.

>In a search for "designer sunglasses", a reputable site is more relevant than a scam site. No it's not. That search term is very open and does not indicate at all that the searcher is looking for reputable sites. A search for "good designer sunglasses store" then maybe. I think you're mixing up the job of a search engine and a review site.

Google appears to disagree with you, as their recent modifications to address this issue have shown.

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