Posted by: Cas_O
Google search "failure" - 27/11/2005 21:54
Do a Google search just on the word "failure" and then hit the "I'm feeling lucky button"....
What do you get....
works every time...
Posted by: DWallach
Re: Google search "failure" - 28/11/2005 00:29
Unsatisfying "official" explanation:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.htmlOr, otherwise translated, Google doesn't like this sort of thing, but they can't be bothered (yet) to throw the engineering resources at differentiating Googlebombing from legitimate link text.
Posted by: lectric
Re: Google search "failure" - 28/11/2005 01:52
Agreed... I am starting to get more and more irritated with these link-sites. One would think that Google had a vested interest in blocking this sort of thing. It is starting to grossly skew their statistics.
Posted by: DWallach
Re: Google search "failure" - 28/11/2005 11:55
I know Google has some large number of staff dedicated to search quality, and I know some of those engineers personally. Absolutely none of them will tell me the slightest thing about how and what they're doing. This is particularly amazing given Google's otherwise carefree attitude about disclosing what they're about and what they're doing.
Posted by: furtive
Re: Google search "failure" - 28/11/2005 12:13
Maybe it means they aren't doing anything
Posted by: lectric
Re: Google search "failure" - 28/11/2005 13:00
Well, I hate to break it to these folks, but they're losing.
Posted by: Robotic
Re: Google search "failure" - 28/11/2005 14:05
So, GWB=failure has become a 'grassroots' googlebombing?
Too bad we don't vote with our searches.
/I feel lucky!
//couldn't be any worse.
///Oh! donuts!
Posted by: lectric
Re: Google search "failure" - 28/11/2005 21:50
Gah, you are all, of course, right. They ARE doing a better job than other companies. I just get frustrated when I type an error message in, and spend the next half hour sifting through crap to find something remotely relevant. The problem, of course, isn't google, but rather the link farms. Perhaps google needs a user-input ranking system, so that every time I hit a link-farm page, I can vote against it.