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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. Still the best! by iai · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Even with a degraded algorythm (if it is in fact degraded) it is still better than all other search engines IMO.

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  2. How are the rankings worse? by greenfield · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wish the article had given some more concrete examples rather than just quoting a few disconentented webloggers. I use Google many times on a daily basis and have found no change in the quality of their results. I guess some people are just fixated on their own ranking rather than the quality of the first results. At least the article touched on that: "I was beating out Mark Twain before -- that's probably not fair."

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  3. Re:Yeah sure! by dahamsta · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I love the way you "copyright" a screenshot of Google. Muppet.

  4. Re:They did it to protect Microsoft and Adword$ by ces · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This sentence no verb.

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