RE: California Software in the News again... -- MIDRANGE-L





What I didn't enjoy about that article was that it seemed to legitimize the
practice of engineering search results in that way.  To someone actually
using the search engine it makes it more and more difficult to actually
find useful info in the midst of all the marketing info inserted into the
results.  Try searching for various types of product reviews (for a fishing
reel, brake parts, or whatever) and the great majority of what you'll find
will be links to many versions of 'pseudo' search or review sites
purporting to contain reviews or info, but actually containing the exact
same content and linking back to the same few shops aggressively marketing
the item.

It would be nice for the big engines to be able to move those type of
results into a separate list (maybe you could toggle between the types of
results if you really wanted that type of result...).  There are many times
i've given up trying to find info that I used to be able to find before
those types of results became this prevalent.  I consider myself to be
fairly skilled at searching, for alot of people that are more casual users
I can't imagine how they find anything useful at all!


                                                                           
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> From: dkahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Just tried a search for iSeries on <http://uk.yahoo.com/>. California
came
> up number 7, and not as a sponsored link.

Not on www.yahoo.com.  Evidently they know who to pay in the UK <g>.

Joe

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