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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. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post, losers.

  2. Workig better than I expected... by DocSbaitso · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think I just got my new wallpaper :P I decided to test Google with "testing"... The first image that came up was a pretty cool wallpaper.

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  3. Vanity, thy name is me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well, I'm still the #1 hit for my last name alone (#15 for my first name alone), so I don't see a problem here.

  4. Worked OK for me... by ackthpt · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I was just looking up "Droit de Seigneur" and it popped urban legends and a few other helpful sites.

    Seems it was rarely if ever imposed, and I was sooo looking forward to being a King someday.

    BTW, this term used in Terry Pratchett's works, "Wyrd Sisters" and "Lords and Ladies" He's go another work due in Novemeber, but the US cover art looks like crap, again, so I'll be ordering Night Watch from the UK.

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  5. LMAO - MOD UP!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Seriously, this isn't trolling - it's fucking funny!

  6. Re:Pideon by handsomepete · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What a bizarre bit of slashdottery... you posted this exact same thing a couple posts down here and it was modded -1 offtopic, you misspell pidgeons and add a link and a smiley face and then it ends up +2 funny. Weird.

    Oh no... (Score:-1, Offtopic)
    by joyoflinux (thejoyoflinux AT yahoo DOT com) on Saturday October 05, @04:43PM (#4393071)
    (User #522023 Info)
    Those pidgeons must be slacking off...

  7. PIGEON, idiot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    pigeon

  8. Re:Goatse.cx no longer in googles search results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No. Slashdot tells google not to spider discussion pages.

  9. Was it just me ? by Kuts · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "According to this Wierd article, recently...."
    :)
    [cleaning spects...]

  10. Re:Pideon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's funny is the fact that you honestly thought that pigeon was spelled "pideon."

  11. Re:They did it to protect Microsoft and Adword$ by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Your post is so full of insider lingo I found it incomprehensible. Certainly not "Interesting" at all.

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