Bad News
Andrew Orlowski at The Register has a remarkably condescending and ill-informed article about the effect of blogs (and trackbacks in particular) on Google searches.
The problem is that Google ranks pages on the number of links it finds to them, and blogs are highly linked. Moreover, Google isn't bright enough to exclude trackback pages, which contain only capsule - very capsule - summaries of the posts themselves, and are generally useless to anyone not interested in the mechanics of trackbacks themselves. They are quite easily filtered... It's just that Google doesn't. Of course, Orlowski seesconcerted attacks to undermine [Google's] integrity from link farms and webloggersbut then he's from San Francisco and has probably been infected by whatever it is they suffer from there.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:31 AM
Comments
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LOL! "concerted attacks"! Hmmm....Linkmistress of Chaos has just taken on a whole new meaning....
Posted by: Susie at October 15, 2003 03:37 AM (0+cMc)
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so the Ping Tsunami is a WMD?
Posted by: Ted at October 15, 2003 03:56 AM (bov8n)
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That is exactly why I started a blog... to undermine integrity. I had my little hat with the light on it, and a canary, and the cutest tiny pickaxe...and I met these guys, there were seven of them, kind of short but a girl can't be too choosy these days. Werid names, too. But they said they already HAD a girlfriend, some lazy tart who sleeps all day. She's probably on some kind of drugs.
A hi-ho.
A hi-ho.
Posted by: LeeAnn at October 17, 2003 12:26 AM (HxCeX)
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