Google Goes After Content Farms 345
RedEaredSlider writes "Aimed at stripping search results of pages from 'low-quality' sites, a new Google Chrome extension allows users to block specified websites from appearing in search results. The names of these sites are then sent to Google, which will study the collected results and use them to determine future page ranking systems. Google principal engineer Matt Cutts wrote in a post on the Google blog that the company hopes the extension will improve the quality of search results. The company has been the target of criticism in recent months, much of which centered around the effect that content farms were having on searches."
An incremental improvement, I suppose... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Here's to hoping Expert's Exchange is among the (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Here's to hoping Expert's Exchange is among the (Score:4, Funny)
My name is not Jesus, most people stopped getting confused about that when I cut my hair.
Re:Death to experts-exchange.com (Score:5, Funny)
Me, too. Now I'm just annoyed because I discovered the quality of the answers.
Re:An incremental improvement, I suppose... (Score:4, Funny)
Frankly, no browser extension will be suitable to the task of going after link farmers until Lethal Force over IP is developed and widely adopted; but, in the absence of robust LF/IP implementations, I suppose hitting them in the wallet will have to do....
As I understand it, there are concerns of collateral damage because of all the hosts behind Network Assassination Translation firewalls.