Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 23, 2012 @01:11AM from the killing-the-Interstitial-ads dept.

hypnosec writes "Google has decided to take punitive actions against those websites that flood the top of their web pages with ads due to which the visitors have to scroll down to finally view the relevant contents on the page. According to Google, this type of layouts annoys the users and thus the web search company will be penalizing those websites through search results. The company disclosed this on its blog. According to Google over the top ads is not good for user experience and thus such websites might not get high ranking on Google web search."

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Re:There are no acceptable ads. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-23 01:36 · Score: 5, Informative

Even worse are the flash ads, with sound, and flash is so bugged that put 2-3 of them in a single page and you have a 70% chance of crashing.
What annoys me... the "+" modifier by ljw1004 · 2012-01-23 02:24 · Score: 5, Informative

What annoys me is when I search for a particular word or phrase, and Google takes me to a page which lacks that word.
I used to be able to type "+blankie" and google would show only those pages that had the word blankie in them. No longer. It just says that + is no longer supported, and takes me to a load of pages without that word.