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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. Ssshhh... by bsDaemon · · Score: 0, Troll

    don't let anyone know, otherwise people will get wise to the fact that people buy their rankings on search engines, stop using them, they will lose "business", and will have to go back to being fair and objective and useful 100% of the time!! that's just plain un-American!!

  2. Re:Goatse.cx no longer in googles search results by Billy_D_Goat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh no! I'll never be able to find that picture again! My world is collapsing!