Google Fires Back About Search Engine Spam 270
coondoggie writes "The folks at Google are taking issue over spam and the quality of Google searches, which some claim has gone down in recent months. Today on Google's official blog, Principal Engineer Matt Cutts said, 'January brought a spate of stories about Google’s search quality. Reading through some of these recent articles, you might ask whether our search quality has gotten worse. The short answer is that according to the evaluation metrics that we’ve refined over more than a decade, Google’s search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness. Today, English-language spam in Google’s results is less than half what it was five years ago, and spam in most other languages is even lower than in English.' Cutts also explained that the company has made a few significant changes to their method of indexing."
Pshaw (Score:4, Funny)
We rock!! (Score:5, Funny)
According to our own tests we are 100% awesome. We have tested you and you are not :( --Elgoog
To big to fail (Score:1, Funny)
Trust google. Trust everything about them.
"Don't be evil" = "Eh. That's good enough."
Re:I call no-way (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I had the same issue searching for scrotwm, a window manager I was checking the man page for.
Re:Google is history... (Score:5, Funny)
" according to the evaluation metrics that we’ve refined over more than a decade, Google’s search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness. "
And thus begins the downfall of Google. Once you start drinking your own lemonade and stop listening to the people who use your product, you're on a greased downhill slope.
That's not lemonade.
Re:Pshaw (Score:4, Funny)
Perhaps they are watching.
Oh please, you make it sound as if google had vans full of surveillance equipment roaming the streets, spying on everyone! Just more of the usual tin foil haberdashery from the conspiracy theory crowd.
Re:I call no-way (Score:2, Funny)
Did you try including the word "man" in the search? Also try using image search. That will make it easier to filter through the results you don't want.