The tyranny of garbage search results

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OJR's Robert Niles has a good rant about "crap data." "Whenever I'm stuck searching for information via Google or Bing, I inevitably have to scroll past link after link to scraped websites — pages written not by any human being, but slapped together by scripts created to blend snippets from other webpages into something that will fool Google's or Bing's algorithm into promoting them." His solution? A return to Yahoo-style web indexes, collated by human editors.

January 21, 2012

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