searchenginejournal.com— The New York Times is using questionable practices such as publishing old archived content as current stories to spam Google search results.
May 8, 2007View in Crawl 4
That's funny. So, you can search for sex on google, and you find Wikipedia and the NY Times. I'm guessing that's not what people are looking for, although you can at least make a case for Wikipedia.Wouldn't there be a giant uproar if sex sites were returned when searching for the NY Times?? I can't be so lucky. Instead, I get more subdomains than I care to deal with. Even 2003 SEO works for the NY times.
balibonesMay 8, 2007
The WSJ is doing this same thing:<a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=search+china+business+site%3Awsj.com&btnG=Search">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=search+china+business+site%3Awsj.com&btnG=Search</a>
anitab83May 8, 2007
Alexa is hardly an authority. According to Alexa, Digg's traffic has gone down by approximately the same amount:<a class="user" href="http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.digg.com">http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=www.digg.com</a>If digg's incredibly slow response over the past few months is any indication, I'd say that digg's traffic is higher, not lower.
sultantraviMay 8, 2007
"Questionable practices" are nothing new to the NYT.
monergismMay 8, 2007
Google does evil by treating people/companies as non-equals.
williamdavisMay 8, 2007
That's funny. So, you can search for sex on google, and you find Wikipedia and the NY Times. I'm guessing that's not what people are looking for, although you can at least make a case for Wikipedia.Wouldn't there be a giant uproar if sex sites were returned when searching for the NY Times?? I can't be so lucky. Instead, I get more subdomains than I care to deal with. Even 2003 SEO works for the NY times.
aussiewebmasterJun 12, 2007
I always get my porn from the NYTimes.... all the t**s that are fit to print