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Tuxman:
Marco Arment wrote:

Now, massive amounts of technically-not-spam sites are generated by penny-hungry affiliate marketers and sleazy web “content” startups to target long-tail Google queries en masse, scraping content from others or paying low-wage workers to churn out formulaic, minimally nutritious pages to answer them.

Searching Google is now like asking a question in a crowded flea market of hungry, desperate, sleazy salesmen who all claim to have the answer to every question you ask.

(...)

And none of them actually know a damn thing about what you’re asking, of course — they’re just offering meaningless, valueless words that seem to form sentences until you actually try to make use of them.

They call this “content”. But it’s not, really — it’s filler. And by a more common-sense definition, it’s spam. But Google either doesn’t think so, or is so overwhelmed by its volume that it has seemingly stopped trying to keep it under control.
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Well, thank you, Web 2.0 with your "user-generated" mindfuck.

Although I wonder why other search engines (cough, Yippy, cough) don't have such a massive spam problem, in fact we should all consider the consequences. What could be an efficient way to filter our very own web experience?

Just a thought.

KynloStephen66515:
What could be an efficient way to filter our very own web experience?

Just a thought.
-Tuxman (January 06, 2011, 11:52 PM)
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Making your own search engine, running on its own code, nothing re-used :) - That way, YOU filter what content appears.

(Im speaking in general terms, not just aiming at you Tux)  :Thmbsup:

Tuxman:
I could use YaCy for that, but I'm not speaking about search engines here but about the splog market.

Renegade:
Well, thank you, Web 2.0 with your "user-generated" mindfuck.
-Tuxman (January 06, 2011, 11:52 PM)
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:D Pretty much.

Google has every reason to serve up shit because shit serves Google ads.

nudone:
You know how we can filter stuff with Adblock plus (or whatever you may use), is there something similar that could be done with google search results - like a blacklist of "splog" (good word) sites?

These sites must be well known and there must be enough interest to keep a compiled list going.

Or is this the kind of feature already built in to something like copernic?

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