Google tweaks search to punish 'low-quality' sites

[ALS]

You know what that means for us don't you.

Google, when I search for Alizée

Wikipedia's Alizée page is first

Alizée America is number two.

Alizée Officiel is number three

Alizée Forum is number four

[Naft]

Unless I'm mistaken, Google sorts it after the amount of hits, so low quality sites usually don't get very high in the results tab cause they're less attractive and appealing to return to.

[User22]

So this is still good for us...right?

[ALS]

Originally Posted by Aaronius31

So this is still good for us...right?

YES

Google has tweaked the formulas steering its Internet search engine to take the rubbish out of its results. The overhaul is designed to lower the rankings of what Google deems "low-quality" sites.

That could be a veiled reference to such sites as Demand Media's eHow.com, which critics call online "content farms" — that is, sites producing cheap, abundant, mostly useless content that ranks high in search results.

Sites that produce original content or information that Google considers valuable are supposed to rank higher under the new system.

Sites that use key words to get hits are pretty much screwed.
A site that may have one picture of Alizée, one picture of Madonna, one picture of Britney and so on just to get Google search hits are now SOL.

"Google depends on the high-quality content created by wonderful websites around the world, and we do have a responsibility to encourage a healthy web ecosystem," Google fellow Amit Singhal and principal engineer Matt Cutts wrote in a blog post. "Therefore, it is important for high-quality sites to be rewarded, and that's exactly what this change does."

[sumi1]

Originally Posted by ALS

You know what that means for us don't you.

Google, when I search for Alizée

Wikipedia's Alizée page is first

Alizée America is number two.

Alizée Officiel is number three

Alizée Forum is number four

If you search in Europe, alizee america will be pushed down. But it will remain in few top sites :-)

[Toc De Mac]

Good news for us all !

[MarkL]

The more ppl visiting the better . If she does something in the future and it gets big Im gonna expect an explosion in members