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Google really doesn't know what they are doing, or do they ?

by niffybranco
4 replies
While searching on google today i came across something that made me wonder what all the fuss about their previous caffine and recent panda update was about . I thought they wer meant to tackle duplicate content

robosoft vs promosoft - Google Search

If you visit that link which is a blog search i carried out you will see that results 3 ,5 and 7 are exactly the same

Just makes me wonder if they hand picked a few websites to penalize just for the PR hype.

What are your thoughts
#google
  • Profile picture of the author cweber
    Well in all fairness that search does only have 31 results turn up so there would be a good chance for duplicate results since there's not much else for the search engine to mix in with it.

    However if there were a couple thousand results at least then i doubt you would be finding duplicate results on page 1 of Google for that search term. Just my opinion though
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  • Profile picture of the author Ernie Lo
    Google are paying me every month.

    They definitely know what they're doing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Peters Benn
    Google don't penalise sites that pull down articles from Reuters or other wire services. O the hundreds of press releases that end up on big sites.

    Heck, they don't even punish some of the big sites with dupe content.

    The duplicate content penalty used to be a near myth - it was hard to trigger simply because it was so basic in it's comparison.

    I still don't think they would waste their processing power on checking every article with every other one.

    What I think they might do is check sites with:

    high content creation speed
    lots of backlinks
    high adverts


    And only look at recent articles - the idea being that duplicate content is posted not too long after the original.

    The ridiculous situation with the British Medical journal makes me think that they have messed up though...
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  • Profile picture of the author niffybranco
    I agree with you guys especially Ernie . I know there is no penalty for duplicate content , but they keep going on about how any duplicate content will go into their supplemental index.

    Yes there are only 31 results but google runs on an algorithm and the algorithm should perform the same permutations regardless of if there are 31 or 1000 result.

    Did they code their algo in a way where if there are not too many results then displaying duplicate content is cool, but if there are lots of results then duplicate content should go into the supplemental index ?

    Also there are other articles with content unique to the duplicate ones that rank on the first page, why don't they rank higher ? ...... Your thoughts
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