This is a tough one. The spam isn’t keeping me from using the internet, but having watched others use the internet, its sort of clear that others are at a disadvantage because of it.

Blekkos results are different, and after hearing this argument, it is clearer as to why.

So I did a random test, I searched Acai Berry, on Bing, Google and Blekko.

Blekko returned a BBB accredited business website, Bing and Google return results which are obviously loaded with what I would consider information which is not the best intent.

I am not into weigh loss, nor do I know anything about Acai Berry except that people call it scam-my, perhaps popular commercial interest search is hurting commercial interests themselves?

“Let’s see I searched for almond paste vegas and the first result was Toronto”

That’s strange, because I get a lot of Vegas-related sites that mention almond paste, e.g.

Search Results
Flavors, Fillings & Icings – Marie’s Gourmet Bakery Las Vegas Nevada
Marie’s Gourmet Bakery is a Las Vegas bakery and specialty bakery for all … Almond Pound Cake – Italian almond paste, orange zest and vanilla sugar. …
http://www.mariesgourmetbakery.com/ffi.html – Cached

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Just like the war on terror, Google’s tough stance on spammers is to be betterment of their product and visitor experience

Recent additions to improve search have been nothing short of pioneering. Visitors love it, stock value & advertising revenue is up and if the only losers are blackhat SEO types, then I say good riddance to bad rubbish.

It’s appaling unethical seo practices is still common place (loads of cheap search engine optimisation companies and search marketing companies still earn a crust offering bad advice) Clean up or get out, this town isn’t big enough for the both of you!

The vast majority of sites are spam sites. I can point to any legitimate business that does not deal strictly as an affiliate site or an adsense site and they will not rank in the top three where they should be because they cannot spend all their time playing the Google game.

Who has time to get all the links (99% of all links are manufactured or solicited and hence, it is all spam). I mean Google has created a verb speak all its own…. no one talks like they talk to get ranking on Google. And heaven forbid if you put adsense on a page it immediately improves in rank dramatically.

Google has created its own industrys and it all relates around pure bs so for you to patronize this JackAss without publicly shunning them….

It would be very easy to register sites and companies and for those companies to fill in a proper form and actually have someone from Google call them to verify or have a third party hired to verify the business as a real business. Or even check local records to verify they are real. But that would violate Google’s new dynamic; never talk to anyone real nor never pick up the phone and deal with someone. I mean we’ll write a formula for that.

New dynamics in the industry such as Amazon’s Kindle, iStore and Groupon are rapidly changing the internet dynamic to deal with real people and real businesses as it should have always been. Google is trying to copy them in all areas but it will fail because the people they screw today (just about every small business in the country) will screw them tomorrow. The same thing happened to AOL. They screwed just about every small business in the country in their arrogant days and they paid dearly. Google is doing the same thing and has not yet figured out that its days are numbered in everything that it does.

Thank God. An internet with real people dealing with real people and not some little math nerds.

the phrase “including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others

So now Google is going to automate culling sites. They have been doing this for years, but now they are going to search for certain words and phrases and start dropping sites based upon content. Unfortuantely content also involves context and these things are NEVER accurate.

My thoughts are not with Google and their quest to rule the world, it is with the small guys who will get dropped from the listings because some incompletely programmed bot decided their site violated some vague parameter. The work of years, entire companies, the support of families goes away overnight, sacrificed to Google’s cult of self-worship. Google is a goliath that destroys lives, and here it goes yet again. The giant rolls over in its sleep and entire communities get crushed. Oh well.

Google will not move to redress as a correction to do the right thing would be an admission of error. Can’t have that.

Google owns the commercial internet. It has too much of a say in what is and is not accepted, and what it shows you is what the corporate heads want you to see. Sound familiar? Google is as much a part of the problem as any other major company or government. For my own searches, I use anything but Google and NEVER CLICK ON AN ADWORD.

Some facts:

1. Google will never get rid of spam which mainly are content farms. Killing them, means killing the long tail, the majority of Google’s income as those sites are mainly supported by Adsense.

2. Web spammers is Google’s creation.

3. Our little boy Matt is a sack full of F..t.

4. Content is is in part irrelevant thanks to Google prioritizing its own properties, placing ads all over, Google local, and other crap that wasn’t there in 2000.

5. Google will never do a good job at getting rid of spam or duplicate content. There WILL NEVER be a way to identify who owns what content, who wrote it first, who copied it, etc. NEVER. So they will always cannibalize legitimate site owners if they keep playing God.

Google is messing up with people’s lives. They are destroying lives left and right every single day with their stupid algo. change by a coder whose best friend is a cat. When the next big thing comes, they are going to be sorry because even the previous Google whores will leave them on the spot. Too much abuse.

I’d say the Justice Department needs to call for the splitting of Google or regulate search engines (it’s Google’s fault). Google is invading every turf out there killing many businesses. All this Google local, Merchant (Base), Maps, etc. at the top of the search results screams anti-competition. Expect to see Google Offers at the top too in an attempt to kill Groupon. I seriously don’t know what has taken the J.D. so long to get on their case!

Yes, Google is working on webspam & have seen many sites. blogs are getting out of rankings. Even Google is deleting such blogger blogs. But there still need to do a lots of work to improve the search quality. The best part of Google is that it is faster than Yahoo or bing either in indexing sites or showing result and this is the main reason if it being top search engine, else B/Y may outrank it.

Spam is at an all time high as far as I can see.

They have done a reasonably good job of keeping spam out of the competitive keywords (The ones they make money on) but where there is no profit for them spam is worse than ever.

Maybe Matt is doing his impersonation of Comical Ali from the Iraq war