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Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam
coondoggie writes "The folks at Google are taking issue over spam and the quality of Google searches, which some claim has gone down in recent months. Today on Google's official blog, Principal Engineer Matt Cutts said, 'January brought a spate of stories about Google’s search quality. Reading through some of these recent articles, you might ask whether our search quality has gotten worse. The short answer is that according to the evaluation metrics that we’ve refined over more than a decade, Google’s search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness. Today, English-language spam in Google’s results is less than half what it was five years ago, and spam in most other languages is even lower than in English.' Cutts also explained that the company has made a few significant changes to their method of indexing."
My anecdotal evidence trumps your empirical evidence any day!
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
According to our own tests we are 100% awesome. We have tested you and you are not :( --Elgoog
Trust google. Trust everything about them.
"Don't be evil" = "Eh. That's good enough."
help me fix this "Terrible" karma, please!
Yeah, I had the same issue searching for scrotwm, a window manager I was checking the man page for.
If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be respected, sit down and shut up.
" according to the evaluation metrics that we’ve refined over more than a decade, Google’s search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness. "
And thus begins the downfall of Google. Once you start drinking your own lemonade and stop listening to the people who use your product, you're on a greased downhill slope.
That's not lemonade.
Worldwide Military budgets: $2100 billion. Worldwide Space Exploration budgets: $38 billion. Really, world? Really?
Did you try including the word "man" in the search? Also try using image search. That will make it easier to filter through the results you don't want.