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    the garbage results of google

    This latest update has produced garbage, and I'm tired of people saying "In every update, certain webmasters will be happy, others will be mad". I have spent the last couple days researching top commercial keywords on highly competitive product categories. I wish I could post this on webmasterworld, but they censor a lot of their posts. So, I'm venting here. I wouldn't have been able to give proof on webmasterworld either. Lame.

    Example 1: discount shoes
    Ok, we see payless, zappos, in the first 10 results. This is good.
    Now lets look at the listed affiliate sites!
    http://www.geocities.com/discountshoesonline/ - CRAP
    http://www.momsview.com/zappos.shtml - CRAP
    http://www.uk-shop-index.co.uk/Shoe-Shop.html - This one is fine

    Example 2:
    We see some yahoo shop, an ok e-store.
    Then we see http://www.chef-recipes.com/cookware.htm. Crap, looks like he's scamming AdSense. (click on his subpages in nav)
    http://www.cash-us.com/products/cookware/ Crap
    http://www.chefsresource.com/discount-cookware.html - good store
    http://entertainment.metromix.chicag...Metromix-Home-!PlaceDetail-22916,00.html - Oh yea google, they deserve that position!
    http://www.linkpartners.com/links35.html - someones link page!

    Ok, sorry I'm tired of typing. But do your research on consumer products (shoes, kitchen, beauty, jewelry, watches, sunglasses). What I'm seeing are specific dealers, and real crappy affiliate sites. The affiliate sites in the past were at least quality, and sent me to quality dealers! Like Zappos and KitchenEtc.com. Many of the new dealers that are getting top results are horrible, and if I was a consumer, I'd rather shop at Zappos.

    I would rather buy DVDs from Amazon than JimBobsDVDShop.com.
    If JimBob wants to sell DVDs, he can learn how to optimize his site, or advertise!!
    Last edited by Kyle; 12-01-2003 at 06:57 AM.
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    I experience exactly the same kind of stuff. I'm just surprised it's taking Google this long to even begin sorting it out.

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    I'm suprised Google allows this to happen...
    It really makes no sense to me. And because it makes no sense, people come up with conspiracies...
    They're becoming more believable too...
    Kyle

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    Yeah... Google is loosing the ball.

    Looks like the scene is set for MSN and Yahoo to return to their former glory.
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    Or AllTheWeb...

    If they get rid of some of the junk websites that you get...

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    Here's my theory: Microsoft, in their quest to take over the search engine market, wants to buy out Google. Doing so would, however, lead to another round of anti-trust lawsuits. So.... the plan is to pay Google under the table to slowly get crappier and crappier so that when MS launches their own search engine they can easily snap up Google's market share!

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    On a more serious note, Google crawled every inch of my site yesterday, so hopefully things are happening and they'll get it back together soon.

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    Originally posted by Westech
    Here's my theory: Microsoft, in their quest to take over the search engine market, wants to buy out Google. Doing so would, however, lead to another round of anti-trust lawsuits. So.... the plan is to pay Google under the table to slowly get crappier and crappier so that when MS launches their own search engine they can easily snap up Google's market share!
    Wow. That's a conspiracy theory and a half!

    I too have had google deep crawl both my sites yesterday and today. Googlebot crawls my sites quite often but not as deep as this. Anyone else get deep crawled?

    Maybe something is about to change. Here's a theory... Maybe Google's going to compare the results of this latest crawl with the cache of sites before the latest update. They'll then use this comparison to work out who's tweaking their sites to combat the problems of the latest update. Those found to be making changes will have their sites banned for ever and ever and ever. In fact, I think "Florida" has been a big trick to catch the SEO's out !!!!

    .... and now back to reality.
    Last edited by chromate; 12-02-2003 at 09:23 AM.

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    another theory
    Don't you just love free internet games ?

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