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Google's Search Results Degraded?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the groping-the-web-in-the-dark dept.

scrm writes "According to this Wired article, recent tweaks to Google's PageRank search algorithm have degraded rather than improved the accuracy of the results." I noticed this firsthand the other day, but only when I was searching for pictures of famous people, but all my technical queries came back fine.

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  1. Famous People? by inc0gnito · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heh, and just who are these famous people you had to have pictures of?

    1. Re:Famous People? by Lxy · · Score: 5, Funny

      More importantly, was the mature content filter off? :-)

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  2. Oh no... by joyoflinux · · Score: 0, Funny

    Those pidgeons must be slacking off...

  3. Yeah sure! by unixmaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Old algorithm was better . See http://fantomaster.com/graphics/googhell.gif

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  4. Quote ... by uq1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I noticed this firsthand the other day, but only when I was searching for pictures of famous people, but all my technical queries came back fine."

    Famous people Google Search: "Courtney Cox getting a facial"
    Results: "Courtney Cox advertises facial creme from Loreal"

    Technical Google Search: "How do best use lube and type one handed"
    Results: "www.pinkbits.com"

  5. Pideon by joyoflinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those pideons must be slacking off...:)

    1. Re:Pideon by Blkdeath · · Score: 4, Funny
      you misspell pidgeons
      ... and in a clever twist of anti-spelling irony (gee, this so rarely ever happens) you misspelt pigeons!
      and add a link
      Slashdot mods like links, is this news?
      and a smiley face and then it ends up +2 funny. Weird
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  6. Goatse.cx no longer in googles search results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sadly its true :(

  7. Google Classic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    We need the original-flavored Google back. Maybe a cache of Google linked from Google?

  8. darn by Raiford · · Score: 4, Funny

    never should have stopped using gopher...

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  9. Re:Plural oddity by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Claiming that English takes from French is foolish when both have a common ancestry in Latin, for instance.

    And Latin stole its words from medical texts.

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