Have you ever tried searching for something on the Internet specifically in Google and receiving useless returns?
Google is very useful to everyone. With a press of a button, more often than not, you get the answer to your query. However, you still have to sift through the search results. It is time-consuming especially when you get sites pretending to have the answer but really give you nothing. Those sites are called 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 either producing large amounts of low-quality text or by copying it from websites with original content.[1]
But fret no more. Google has announced that they will be creating some algorithmic changes, which will help improve the quality of search results. According to Google, they will be re-ranking the sites by reducing the ranking of sites that are of low quality (those who just copy contents from other sites) and giving a higher ranking to those who give high quality information (those who really conduct research and in-depth reports.)
By doing this, Google will not only help Internet users get quality results but more importantly, it will help make the Internet a more efficient and reliable source of information for everyone.
[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/02/25/google.content.farms.mashable/index.html
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Entry # 13
Pia Augutha G. Agatep
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