Google Declares War on Content Farms

Google has announced a major algorithmic change to its search engine, subtle in nature and perhaps unnoticeable to many users, but one that should dramatically improve the quality of Google’s search results.

With this move, Google is targeting content farms — a common name for low quality sites whose main goal is to attract search traffic by piling up (mostly) useless content, usually by producing large amounts of low-quality text or by copying it from websites with original content.

Google did not go into details of the change, which should impact 11.8% of Google’s queries (currently only in the U.S., with plans to roll it out elsewhere over time), but it does say that it will affect the ranking of many sites on the web.

“This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites — sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites — sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on,” explain Googlers Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts in a blog post.


http://mashable.com/2011/02/25/google-content-farms/#

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I hope this helps because all search engines that I've used recenly jus suck. Google was awesome about ten years ago.

just over-flowing with useless links...nothing more than phone directories to more worthless links! Yeah! Google!

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Blekko Bans eHow and Other Content Farms
Is it only a matter of time before Google punishes known content farms too?


TechCrunch reports that Blekko is now (or about to) block the top 20 sites its users have marked as a source of web spam. The list includes prominent content producers eHow.com and answerbag.com.



ehow.com
experts-exchange.com
naymz.com
activehotels.com
robtex.com
encyclopedia.com
fixya.com
chacha.com
23people.com
download3k.com
petitionspot.com
thefreedictionary.com
networkedblogs.com
buzzillions.com
shopwiki.com
wowxos.com
answerbag.com
allexperts.com
freewebs.com
copygator.com

making a concerted effort to up the quality of their indexed articles. Sites online instructing on building traffic suggest writing in these farms...I think that has been very successful and now, possibly, the reason for the farms demise.

Sometimes I feel like I'm looking for high quality power tools in the 99 cent store.