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- ggidster, on 10/11/2007, -2/+55About time!
- kingkilr, on 10/11/2007, -5/+48In other news, digg has 80% less content.
- GawtMilk, on 10/11/2007, -10/+48I was just going to say. If Google really wants to help web users, get rid of their Parked Domain program. It's awful how they encourage people to cherry pick website domain names, and just let them sit. Look at the kinds of websites that are full of Google Ads...websites that are useless now but may have use sometime later.
The PS3 is out now, and there's a sucessful website called "PS3Fanboy.com", so some morons took the initiative in creating "PS4Fanboy.com" and filling it up with Google Ads. Yet Google allows this annoying act, and even encourages it*. Know how many times I've tried to start a website up, only to see "www.moviejunkies.com" is taken up by some ***** with no intent on using it?
* - http://www.google.com/domainpark/ - ivachen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+35i thought it is time for About.com to be purged from google results, LOL
- kenvsryu, on 10/11/2007, -5/+33Did I say I love google? I would marry it and divorce it and get half it's fortune if I could.
- solemnraven, on 10/11/2007, -2/+22There's a disturbance in the interwebs.......
As if millions of sites suddenly cried out in terror, and then, suddenly, silence. - WillyWonka, on 10/11/2007, -3/+22You have a page with lots of ads don't you?
- angusm, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Step 0: Google's indexes fill up with spamsites that contain lots of ads but no useful content
Step 1: Google bans sites that have lots of ads but little content.
Step 2: Spamsite owners register new domains, auto-suck text from Wikipedia and mash it up with CC-licensed photos from Flickr
Step 3: Google's indexes fill up with spamsites that contain lots of ads but no useful content
Step 4: Google bans any site containing content from Wikipedia, including Wikipedia.
Step 5: Spamsite owners suck text from anywhere else they can find.
Step 6: Google's indexes fill up with spamsites that contain lots of ads but no useful content
Step 7: Google bans any site containing any content that has ever been seen on any known spamsite.
Step 8: Google's indexes now contain only a single website, a personal homepage run by Mrs Shirley Jones of Aberystwyth, Wales, which contains pictures of her cat Fluffy and a recipe for griddle cakes, plus a rotating flaming skull that her nephew Dai (who made the page for her) added to make the page more kickass.
Step 9: Mrs Jones' webserver collapses under the load and goes offline indefinitely.
Step 10: Spamsite owner discovers way to comment spam the cached copy of Mrs Jones's page in Google's cache.
Step 11: Google's cache fills up with pages that contain lots of ads but no useful content
Step 12: Google bans itself - jamessavik, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14I appreciate almost any honest effort to clean up net-crap which I define as anything tht wastes my time and bandwidth.
- mykos, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Is this because they want to corner the market on plastering ads all over pages?
Hosts file > Google ads - resplence, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11So long Engadget.
- SocialPoison, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10"i thought it is time for About.com to be purged from google results, LOL"
Ugh... no kidding.
*enters a programming question into google*
*goes to the first result*
"blah blah blah your exact question"
(which leads to a pay-for registration page
*thumbs up* - carlosglz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12Looks like this Kevin Ham's business model is going to ***** (the beginning of the end):
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/index.htm - solemnraven, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8SILENCE THE NON BELIEVER!!!!
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH! - EthylAdded, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I'll miss the New York Post.
- pappas215, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8this is a good start
maybe next they will stop advertisers from buying company names - daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7It is a private business. You don't have to use it. Go to live.com for some ad content website
Start bitching when your government websites start doing that. - WinnerS, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6@GawtMilk
Maybe you should have purchased the domain first?
You can't blame a person for purchasing a domain and not doing anything with it.
It is like a person purchasing a piece of land and leaving it as is.
What is the problem?
Get your own unique idea. - Hedegaard, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6...
Step 13: ??
Step 14: Profit! - indicas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5no search engine win over blackhat strategies. there is no mechanism for gaging a sites 'worth' that cannot be manipulated.
sorry folks but this won't end blackhat seo, the smart ones have already left adsense for more profitable programs - DollaDollaBill, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5ssshhhhh. Don't talk about adblock your gonna burst the bubble!
- bsiviglia9, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Is Google filtering search results from its search engine, or filtering customers from its AdSense program?
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -6/+10Ads? What are those?
AdBlock Plus FTW - Dobriak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4GoDaddy and their customers are _not_ going to be happy.
- bsiviglia9, on 10/11/2007, -8/+11Has Google elected itself the Ministry of Truth and taken upon itself the task of filtering content it doesn't like?
Can we trust that Google has only benign intentions for our informational needs? - scronline, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Nice comments.... really. I love how so many of them actually pertain to the topic.
Anyone that's been using Google long before it was a verb has learned that it's more than AdSense that's a problem for their search results and in the grand scheme of things, fixing this will only be a drop in a bucket. IF they even fix it, there will still be the blackhat SEO operations that google still doesn't address.
The sooner people realize that Google's results are ALWAYS skewed because of blackhat tactics that Google does little to clean up, the sooner people will use other search engines and find the results they need within the first 1 or 2 pages instead of within the first 10. Spam is spam. It doesn't matter if it's on a search engine or email. If something isn't done to clean it up, I use other products. - bs3arch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Think Google will purge its results of Digg then? And its 6 to 10 ad units per page?
- shuck, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I recently read that google is also blocking ads from websites that offer to write college essays because it wanted to make sure that university degrees remain legit...While it is nice that google is trying to make its search results clean and protect universities, I would argue that once google starts blocking types of pages like these it amounts to censorship. I fear that these two recent stories could lead google down a dangerous path. The internet is supposed to be a heaven for free speech, and any company that claims to index the internet should index the entire internet, no matter what a websites content is.
- Dougman82, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6Go google! One step in the right direction at least.
- michaeljh, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2We like to call those people myspace users.
- Scrollfx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@Barbarino
Do you think that is a good thing?
A lot of good sites stay online cause of the money they make through advertisement. Even digg here has google ads.
A lot of sites are not selling products, so advertisement is the only way they can recoup the cost of running a website. - WilliamDavis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This is old news, and poorly explained.
- MrViklund, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Good on ya Google!
- keitho, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is why on all of my campaigns, I opt out of the content network. Too much fraud and little to zero benefit.
- Scrollfx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@conquest
Kevin Ham makes money by selling domain name. This doesn't affect him. - theorn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Now, if only Digg would do this too!
I'm tired of all the "Here's a great article" links to their blog with a zillion ads plus "Here's a great article" link that links to the real news. More redirection than a 90's era Macintosh! - Scrollfx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@deliguy
They don't care what you put on your website. But if you want to do business with them, you should follow their rules. If you don't like google Adsense program, feel free to use something else to put ads on your site. Doesn't that make sense to you? You can ***** anywhere you like, but if you come into my house, please use the bathroom toilet. - sputza, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1See you later computerworld.com
- dotancohen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I hope both. Most of the junk sites are all full of Adsense ads, and some wikipedia content to boot.
- keesj, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This action won't do much harm to these domainers. If the websites have little content they won't appear in top results anyway. The idea behind most of these site is Type-In traffic, which doesn't rely on search results.
Although I agree with penalizing these kind of sites I don't think filtering is the right choice. Just add a "worthiness"-component to the search algorithm and calculate the worthiness based on the content/advertisements-factor. - Camaroman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Google and Dell are kick ass!
- keesj, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This article has nothing to do with the search results either :/
- keesj, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Sorry I misread. They won't filter the search results, just the the ads google publishes itself. Marked as inaccurate because the title suggests Google is filtering all search results. More info: http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Will_Not_Filter_Search_Results
- keesj, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Google is filtering Adword users
- Lynque, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I find it Ironic that there ads at the bottom of the article for online jobs and kodak printers???
Sorry but how are they contextual to the content on page???
Sites like NYPost are the ones who should be cleaning up their act! - mpredosin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@Gophergod: ditto man!
- grillcheese, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is a serious problem for advertisers.
Just last week I paused the Pay Per Click campaign for the corporation that I work for, for this exact reason. I suggest you select the sites you want your ads to run on if you are participating in Google's ad words.
Also, I have noticed that craigslist.org has this same problem in the apt/housing section. This spammer will post a link for an apartment and then on a .htm web page posts pictures of apartment interiors/exteriors with no phone number and no name, only yahoo ads on the page. I mark these as Spam...you should too. - anikhassan, on 10/21/2007, -0/+0So google will ban the MFA sites from its search results. Right? Which means less profit for google!!
- zappo1776, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2"all the ads and lack of actual content" sounds like a description of the NY Post. Good article though.
- Scrollfx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0@bsiviglia9
From the article, I believe they are dropping sites from their AdSense program for abusing the AdSense program. In doing so, these sites will have no more money coming in and hopefully shut down.
So indirectly, Google will clean up their search results if these crappy sites shut down. -
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