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Google Tweaks Algorithm; EHow Traffic Plummets

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the small-mercies dept.

jfruhlinger writes "For some time there's been rumbling that Google's search results have been gummed up by low-quality pages from 'content farms,' written at low or no cost specifically to score high on common Google queries. Now it looks like the latest update to Google's search algorithm is having an effect, cutting into traffic to eHow (and cutting down the stock price of eHow's owner, Demand Media, in the process)."

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  1. Expert Sex Change by HelioWalton · · Score: 2, Funny

    They definitely need to tweak it further to get rid of or decrease the number of results from expert sex change.

  2. Re:Wouldn't it be a lot simpler by danbert8 · · Score: 1, Funny

    But I don't want a sex change, even if they are experts!

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  3. like many programmers by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    i've gotten experts exchange results in google searches forever, and i loathe them

    however, not once, in years, have i seen "experts exchange" written in such a way in your post that it makes me think "expert sex change"

    so thanks. thanks a lot. for making a bane of my existence somehow even worse. because now i will never look at "experts exchange" in google results again without seeing "expert sex change"

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