That just LOL, it’s become realistic if they review all the content manually.

no change.

This is really nothing new, Google are just reiterating what they have always said, and now with the panda update they actually have algorithmic swing to follow through on their requirements.

So the tall and short of it is – write quality content aimed at the user. Simple.

I’m never too enthusiastic about Googles “improvements” to it’s algorithms. Google has become bigger than most of us would like them to be. I would love to see Yahoo! or Bing surpass them in the near future. Google has got too big for itself. Seo is one major advantage most of us small online e-tailers have over the corporate giant’s. Since Google has become a corporate giant itself it’s no wonder why they seem to be siding with the other multi-million dollar empires out there.

Google’s stated objectives seem sound enough. The quality of their efforts is bound to decline without effective competition, but whose fault is that? Somebody needs to actually show up and make a game of it.

Google’s conduct and statements imply a hierarchy of value. Searchers are exalted at the expense of content providers. It may be because hostility towards SERP gamers has taken root and is be growing without constraint. If searchers and content providers were valued equally, then you’d expect more transparency and consultation.

A complacent air of impunity pervades their public statements, but that’s just how social groups behave in a position of unchallenged advantage. Until somebody gives them a bad day it’s going to continue. We may eventually see “megooglomania” emerge. Let’s hope it doesn’t get that bad. They do great stuff, but if they go off the rails they’ll do even more harm.

Good article Chris, and thank you for all your writings. This article is the approach I have always taken for my site and through all the changes, this approach has paid off.
For those bashing Google, read between the lines. For the comment, FB is closing in, LOL!!

I think that Google is trying to improve the search experience for the general searching population. That’s a good thing, and while it requires anyone managing a website to know grammar and be fluent in their native language, for some, this may be a problem. The questions highlight how little real education a lot of people have (in America – thanks for that RonnieRaygun). Doing away with sites that are not ‘grammatically’ correct, or with lousy content DOES restrict what one can find when searching on the internet, but for me, quality content is what I want, not an echo chamber, telling me the same thing over and over again in bad grammar – If I want that, I’ll watch FOXNews.

While I think that the millions and millions of ‘cloned’ sites selling niche markets that have become the latest vogue in ‘internet investment’ will also suffer under this Google algorithm, (and I’m not sure that’s such a bad thing), there are a lot of ‘mom & pop’ sites out there, with which people are supporting themselves and their families by selling a service, downloadables or hard-goods, and many of them have dated or mildly illiterate content. I wonder if Google’s algorithm will still provide a place for them to reach their audience?

In the end, we must remember that Google gets it’s income from advertising,
and it can do so because its search results are the most relevant and highest quality, therefore it’s used more for searches than any other. Its aim SHOULD be to improve the search experience, since that’s the basis of its success. If the consumer (searchers) don’t like the results they are getting from Google, they’ll go to Bing or Yahoo, and Google will lose market share.

It seems to be an experiment by which Google is trying to ‘improve’ the quality of it’s results. If it works, folks will love it. If not, people will migrate to Bing or Yahoo, and Google will quickly modify its algorithm again to lower the ‘weight’ of content again. Ever feel like a lab rat?

We cannot deny to ourselves that google by far is still the best of the search engines out there. Personally my searches are very relevant and healthy with google. So as a web admin myself, it doesnt hurt us to have these requirements. It is actually Pro-user recquirements.

I personally think some of these points are ridiculous as it locks out the rest of the world. Which rest, you might ask? The rest that don’t have English as their mother tongue.

This one for an example “Does this article have spelling, stylistic, or factual errors?”, and there are several others I would debate. If a not English speaker creates a website that use English language they don’t have a chance to get to the top no matter how good or useful the content is because of the above reason.

I don’t think google panda is as useful to the web community as google wants us to think. I think it’s discriminatory towards other than english speaking websites.