I LOL @ G! (Personal Content-Farm Blocklist)

[yukon]

How advanced do you really think the Google algorithm is?

Now Google is trying to build an army of content-farm narks, Lmao!




hxxp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-block-sites-from.html

hxxps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef

[John Williamson]

Thanks for the laugh

[yukon]

Originally Posted by John Williamson

Thanks for the laugh

It will go down in history as the plugin that saved the internet, lol.

[Derek S]

LOL now time for me to build my own personal army of "content-farm narks" to fight off my evil competitors haha
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[Irnes Jakupovic]

They better be very careful with this. I can easily see people abusing this to hurt their competitors. It would not be a very difficult process to automate on a pretty big scale.

[yukon]

The plugin source code, looks like they are reporting the URLs directly to G, after someone clicks the block-website in the SERPs button.

[Derek S]

Originally Posted by yukon

The plugin source code, looks they are reporting the URLs directly to G, after someone clicks the block-website in the SERPs button.

Yeah thats what it said in one of the articles you posted... funny thing is a read about this a week ago and google announced this feature but with no mention of reporting content farms...

Google made it sound like it was a feature to just personalize the individuals results to their liking LOL

So on second thought I might just create a software to do this instead of outsourcing if their not tracking the searchers IP's!... watch out for my WSO

how many people do they really think will do this? Chrome already has a pretty small market share (less than 16% use chrome to find my site... nearly more people find my site using an iphone than chrome) and on top of that who will actively go out of their way to do this... the average searcher is lazy.

I think this will have the same impact as the stupid stars google places in their search results and truly have no impact on ranking for 99.9999% of sites.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by Derek S

Yeah thats what it said in one of the articles you posted... funny thing is a read about this a week ago and google announced this feature but with no mention of reporting content farms...

Google made it sound like it was a feature to just personalize the individuals results to their liking LOL

So on second thought I might just create a software to do this instead of outsourcing if their not tracking the searchers IP's!... watch out for my WSO

how many people do they really think will do this? Chrome already has a pretty small market share (less than 16% use chrome to find my site... nearly more people find my site using an iphone than chrome) and on top of that who will actively go out of their way to do this... the average searcher is lazy.

I think this will have the same impact as the stupid stars google places in their search results and truly have no impact on ranking for 99.9999% of sites.

Yea, they don't do anything unless they benefit somehow. In this case they are recruiting clueless people to do their work for them.

Wonder what happens If that url (screenshot above) happens to show up on a competitions website, then Google crawls the page.

[lexilexi]

OMG... HOW stupid are they?

Agreed, they are finally admitting they have no clue how to detect quality content.

They could start by blocking eHow... a content farm if ever there was one

[yukon]

Originally Posted by lexilexi

OMG... HOW stupid are they?

Agreed, they are finally admitting they have no clue how to detect quality content.

They could start by blocking eHow... a content farm if ever there was one

True, they can't detect quality, like I've always said they are based on keywords (not much more), that's why spun articles slip past them.

No doubt ehow is one of the largest.

What's funny about ehow is, last I checked they were running Adsense.

[lexilexi]

Originally Posted by yukon

What's funny about ehow is, last I checked they were running Adsense.

Hehe! It has to go down as one of the great sleight-of-hand tricks of our times - that most people out there really do think that Google magically finds the 'best' web sites and puts them at the top.

If they knew the real deal, there might be some kind of mass exodus - if only there was anywhere to go.

The thing that annoys me is that the bright idea to rank popularity rather than actually ranking quality has been the motivator behind most of the webspam out there. In other words, they are the ones who built a flawed system - and then make out that they are the "good guys", the "do no evil" guys. Most people are at the survival level and will build whatever kind of web pages make a buck, and if it happens to be crap ones then so be it.

Imagine what the internet would be like if quality content really was rewarded. Getting users to "vote" content up or down is stooping to the level of digg if you ask me - do they really think this is going to improve things?

if someone could build a new type of search engine that actually finds the good stuff (whoo, what a concept!), they could put G out of business. I think that's beyond the scope of current A.I. though.