[Tfug] tfug Digest, Vol 70, Issue 7

[keith smith]

Google is built on relevancy.

A lot goes into that.

Maybe what you need is to build a spider than can return what you want.

Would be a cool project.



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Keith Smith


--- On Fri, 5/8/09, Charles R. Kiss <charles at kissbrothers.com> wrote:

> From: Charles R. Kiss <charles at kissbrothers.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] tfug Digest, Vol 70, Issue 7
> To: tfug at tfug.org
> Date: Friday, May 8, 2009, 5:42 PM
> 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.
> 
> 
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