Google Goes After Content Farms

Posted by Soulskill on Monday February 14, 2011 @12:54PM 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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Re:Firefox Extension Needed! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-02-14 13:20 · Score: 0, Troll

It's like putting a three legged horsey in a race with a malevolent stallion. It's not fast enough. Allow ME as a registered and positively identified user make a click and watch them die. Make the die forever with not recourse to having that domain reinstated if 1/100 of on percent of google users click on the hate button.
If a user is shown to abuse this they too can go bye.
Right now all I get is some vacuous blow off if I get any response at all.