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Google Goes After Content Farms

Posted by Soulskill on from the cleaning-up-the-e-streets dept.

RedEaredSlider writes "Aimed at stripping search results of pages from 'low-quality' sites, a new Google Chrome extension allows users to block specified websites from appearing in search results. The names of these sites are then sent to Google, which will study the collected results and use them to determine future page ranking systems. Google principal engineer Matt Cutts wrote in a post on the Google blog that the company hopes the extension will improve the quality of search results. The company has been the target of criticism in recent months, much of which centered around the effect that content farms were having on searches."

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  1. Re:Here's to hoping Expert's Exchange is among the by h4rr4r · · Score: 1, Informative

    Just scroll down to the bottom. The answer is always there.

  2. Re:Firefox Extension Needed! by nicedream · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dear dch24,

    Try this script for Greasemonkey.

    Sincerely,
    nicedream

  3. Death to experts-exchange.com by Uloi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is the solution to your coding problem.. Oh wait no, give us money first.

    1. Re:Death to experts-exchange.com by idiot900 · · Score: 4, Informative

      If you reach an experts-exchange.com page via Google, just scroll down to the very bottom for the solution.

  4. Re:Here's to hoping Expert's Exchange is among the by Korin43 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Solution: Add "stackoverflow" to the end of every programming-related question. It saves a lot of time.

  5. Re:Firefox Extension Needed! by multisync · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is not a meta-mod system. It is a comment popularity system.

    It is useful as well. It is comment-centric, and gives site administrators a very high level snapshot of what users think about the current state of the user generated content.

    The old meta-moderation system oth tasked the meta-moderator with judging whether a specific moderation a comment received was fair. It wasn't a perfect system, but it provided just the smallest possibility that there may be consequences for abuse of moderation privileges.

    --
    I don't care why you're posting AC
  6. Re:Here's to hoping Expert's Exchange is among the by IICV · · Score: 5, Informative

    They occasionally have actual answers. The thing is, Google won't give you any credit for answers browsers can't see - which would mean the paywall would knock your page rank to shit.

    How does Expert Sex Change get around this? They pretend that the answer is behind a paywall, when in fact the answer is actually all the way at the bottom of the page. The Google search bot is much more patient than you are, and will not care about the pretend-paywall.

    So yeah. Whenever it looks like Expert Sex Change has your answer, just follow the link and scroll all the way down.