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A Very Simple Ethical Principle for Search: Google Fails Miserably

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Grorgy:
You can make google mmore or less ad free using some of the scripts written for firefox extensions greasemonkey and stylish and ad block plus also removes a lot of the ads on most sites, I find these particularly useful, and while i still get some ohe more sneaky folk, the ones that tell me they have t he best deals on (search term) overall its an improvement.

Dangerously socialist ideas popping up in here, lucky it isnt the 1950s and Mcarthy has gone  ;D   

mouser:
I should point out something that may not be obvious -- it's not so much the ads on side of the results that concern me about google, it's the fact that they use secret "algorithms" to decide which pages should be ranked higher and more likely to return to the user for any given search.  i.e. google decides how good a page/website is and that effects whether the page will be ranked #1 for various searches, or #99,999.

Google tends to do a very good job of "properly" (in terms of giving you what you are looking for up front) ranking search results -- that's partly why they got so popular and remain the search engine of choice, but that still doesn't do much to allay my concern that the entire weight of their corporate model is pushing them to give higher ranking to their own pages and pages of people who advertise with them [see some of the recent essays on how google has upset people by leveraging their pages to suggest people install their toolbars and tools in ways that many see as unfair to the competition -- something they originally said they wouldn't do].

momonan:
I have admuncher and almost never see an ad -- even on google.  Does anyone else use this?  http://www.admuncher.com

app103:
If you use Ad Muncher you never see any ads, on any site, with any browser.  :D

I had suggested Scroogle for the reason that not only does it give you ad free results, it makes a statement, too.

I am not entirely anti-ad. I am against how Google is using them in their results and what effects it has had on overall results, with them being filled with garbage pages that exist solely for the purpose of making money with adsense. The quality is going downhill.

It's really bad when someone can steal the content of someone else's site, post it as a blog post on hundreds of splogs with Google's help (blogger.com is owned by Google) and because it has adsense ads on the page and it's hosted by Google it gets a higher ranking in the results, than the original site. They are helping the splog owners steal visitors from quality sites and flood the search results...all in the name of making a buck.

And the creators of these splogs don't care about the content. They are not going to go back and edit it and fix it and keep it up to date and make it worthy of visiting...they just want you to come and click an ad and make them some money. And Google's adsense is the driving force behind this.

The problem is Adsense...it has to go before it destroys the web for everyone.

nudone:
how about something like copernic. it returns a set of results by combining the results from several search engines.

the idea being that we assume that most search engines will be favouring their own add infected web sites in the results. the copernic like program does the filtering, cross referencing the results - similar matches found high ranked across all of the search engine results are considered genuine good finds. this then removes the bias of any particular search engine - assuming they have their own set of advertisers that distinct from each other.

i just say this as i assume that the other search engines are working in a similar way to google and bias their results to favour their advertisers. maybe it's only google doing that - i have absolutely no idea what other search engine companies are doing.

wouldn't this work?

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