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The company has introduced an update that reduces rankings for low-quality sites and boosts rankings for high-quality sites. Google defines low-quality sites as those that copy content from other sites or sites that are "just not very useful." Conversely, the company recognizes high-quality sites as those that produce original content and information that includes research, thoughtful analysis and so on.
"Google depends on the high-quality content created by wonderful websites around the world, and we do have a responsibility to encourage a healthy web ecosystem. Therefore, it is important for high-quality sites to be rewarded, and that's exactly what this change does." Google hasn't specifically named what "low-quality" sites are affected, but an employee said that "people will get the idea of the types of sites we're talking about."
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I'm often finding Google sending me to other search engines which simply list the same search terms and results that Google did. These pages aren't useful. I hope that it is these such sites that Google plans to bury.
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Putting forward the "econet" eh?
Well it sounds the part alright.
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I get it, so when you search for, lets say... a Nirvana lyric: The nirvana fan site will be the first, whereas those lyric sites that just copy paste off each other and completely spam a search result get pushed back.
Awesome.
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Sarcasm said:
All this does is help make people conform more to the latest standards, which IMO is a good thing.
So if you're running old useless content with crappy coding, then don't bother being searched.
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This ought to clean all the irrelevant results every time we run a Google search. Nice job, Google.
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