[Tfug] tfug Digest, Vol 70, Issue 7

[Charles R. Kiss]

Thanks for the very detailed responses.

I didn't know there was a whole industry devoted to knocking out  
Google-spam; I understood that Wikipedia shows up because it is used so  
much -which I consider a problem, not a mark of excellence, and that many  
of the results of Google queries are due to exploits, which argues my  
point that perhaps Google has become to much a target, and too large for  
it's own good (overvalued) and vulnerable... yeah, like Windows is  
vulnerable to open source OSs.  *ahem*

So, to be unfairly harsh, but to emphasize my intuition that Google  
results are just the corporate group think search results + group spam  
exploits, I say that most of the reults, the webpages themselves -and  
their content, look very similar in structure to your average ADware; with  
maybe a Wikipedia page thrown in.  I'm getting very discouraged.   I'm  
looking forward to experimenting more with other search engines.  Though  
Google images helps a little more, it usually has the same sites, which I  
also enjoy-but would also like to get away from.

And I still would like to get page after page of legal Beethoven mp3's  
(which I'm sure are out there...??), that I could just click and download  
with out sifting through the tons and tons of spam to get there.

I know I'm being a little harsh.

Again, thank you for your very detailed respones.

Charles



> From: Nate <nate at torzo.com>

> people have learned how to exploit google's rankings

> Wikipedia is displayed so prominently simply because tons of people link
> to it from all over.