Comments on: Search Engines Can’t Tell Shit From Shinola

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By: The SEO Expert

The SEO Expert — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:53:27 +0000

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By: Centercap

Centercap — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 19:45:20 +0000

It’s true these days, it’s hard to find good clean listings when searching for almost anything,a nd I don;t think there is any end in sight.

By: Emily Humbarger

Emily Humbarger — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:58:24 +0000

Good day i was wondering are profile backlinks worth it? in seo

By: John Doh!

John Doh! — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:31:54 +0000

My mother didn’t even know she had a web presence, but if you type in the name of the shop and the town, it’s the third entry on google. Which somewhat startled her, she paid for magazine advertising and they did the rest as a way to market the magazine

By: Harry Stottle

Harry Stottle — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:50:46 +0000

“but as is evident with Digg or any system under user control, attempts will be made to profit from it.”

Checkout Stumble. Its not like Digg or anything else I’ve come across. I challenge anyone to demonstrate the kind of exploit you describe. It’s certainly not obvious. And I don’t think they deliberately designed it with that problem in mind but, accidentally, they’ve created a structure which is very difficult to subvert.

By: stef

stef — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:53:05 +0000

i dont get what you are trying to say with these articles. is it “the internet is doomed, stop even try to make a site with good content cause there is no point?”

the vibe of all your articles is very negative and destructive … why bother? you raise some very valid points but please – be more positive. you make me feel like throwing my pc out the window

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:09:44 +0000

One more point…

>>96% of my traffic (since Xmas) has come from websites and only a couple of % from search engines.

>>Also, I have to say, speaking as a serious researcher, that I don’t have much trouble finding what I’m looking for on the web

If you were looking for your own articles with Google, it sounds as if they may be difficult to find. With only a few % of your visitors coming from search engines, you illustrate the point perfectly. Since you have significant traffic, browsers must find your site useful or interesting.

So why are you not found in search engines when people are looking for pages related to your keywords?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:08:20 +0000

Thank you both for the thoughtful comments. >>The question is, who’s got the time, inclination and resources to get that ball rolling? The industry never stands still. All three major engines have "personalized" search options that attempt to learn from your preferences now and should only improve in the future. Your idea of mashing up social bookmarking with this personalized search is an excellent approach, but as is evident with Digg or any system under user control, attempts will be made to profit from it. With a few thousand unique visitors waiting for any story that makes to the Digg front page, the temptation is evident and the accounts created only for voting stories up are rampant. The web has grown too large for directory style intervention (a la the early days of Yahoo!) and it seems unmanageable algorithmically. While Google does not do it, the amount of hand-coding of search results that goes into Yahoo! and MSN might surprise the general public. Check out this one example of a Yahoo! search that they obviously do not hand code: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ephedrine One inventive tool that Yahoo! does offer to fight this is called Mindset -- allowing you to vary the search results between informative and commercial. Here is the same result through the Mindset shopping/information filter: http://mindset.research.yahoo.com/search.php?p=ephedrine