Google's Fight Against 'Low-Quality' Sites Continues

nj_peeps writes "A couple weeks ago, JC Penney made the news for plummeting in Google rankings for everything from 'area rugs' to 'grommet top curtains.' Turns out the retail site had a number of suspicious links pointing at it that could be traced back to a link network intended to manipulate Google's ranking algorithms. Now, Overstock.com has lost rankings for another type of link that Google finds to be manipulation of their algorithms. This situation has led Google to implement a significant change to their search algorithms, affecting almost 12% of queries in an effort to cull content farms and other webspam. And in the midst of all of this, a company with substantial publicity lately for running a paid link network announces they are getting out of the link business entirely."

Santorum

[Anonymous Coward]

As long as they don't change their algorithm so that the Santorum Google bomb ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_(sexual_neologism) [wikipedia.org] ) loses effect, I'm happy.

Re:Does that mean

[Kokuyo]

I don't give a damn about their soul, I just want it to point me to the information I am looking for.

Google keeps doing what its doing, SHOCKER!

[Anonymous Coward]

Completely unpredictable that Google keeps maintaining their product, unfathomable

Next target, those stupid mailing list aggregators that keep popping up first in results, but are a redirect to a redirect to a redirect ... and digg/reddit types

Re:Can the car parts spammers be next?

[adeft]

Same can be said for searching for computer part numbers i.e. a replacement laptop cd-rom. If it wasn't true, this could be considered a computer analogy to explain a car situation.....

Re:Does that mean

[SilentStaid]

I'd settle for it finding these two droids I've been looking for.

Re:Good, now I can really depend

[paiute]

I guess the humor in my original post on this thread was lost somewhere.

It was low-quality humor, obviously culled from a humor farm - and thus downgraded.