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Hey Google... Stop GUESSING!

Friday, March 31, 2017 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi

The strange thing about search engines is that nearly 100% of what they index is nothing more than a guess, and sometimes they guess wrong.

I've always been fascinated with search engines. Most of the time, when you search for something, they give you exactly what you're looking for, but sometimes they miss the mark. That's because a lot of the search results include pages that they misclassified due to incorrect guessing about the subject matter.

For example, search engines often misclassify local content as national content and vice versa, or they confuse factual content with fiction. This often leads to bigger problems when new pages are posted based on research from incorrect information.

I think the solution to this is for search engines to create standardized ways... [More]

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Web Page Expiration Dates

Thursday, March 30, 2017 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi

I hate seeing outdated content in search results.

The web is full of useless, outdated content. There needs to be a way for a web site to specify an expiration date for each page, so that they can be filtered automatically from search results pages.

We know some pages are more timeless than others, but there are a ton of pages for things like Black Friday sales and special events that end up in search results, wasting time and resources.

One solution is to create a standardized way to embed an expiration date into the web page, or site maps so that the search engines can automatically eliminate them from search results.

The Web is Full of Identical Content

Sunday, October 30, 2016 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi

Why don't more sites focus on original content?

The amount of information published online each day is staggering. The trouble is, most of it is redundant duplicate content.

We live in a copycat world. If you do a search for a sentence from any given web site, odds are you can find the exact same sentence published word for word, on tens of thousands of other pages. Why is that? Doesn't anyone like to write original content anymore?

Even sites that don't copy content word for word, still tend to base most of their content on paraphrasing other sites. Of course, there are exceptions, but the fact is, if you really do the research, you'll find that for every site like mine that writes 100% original content, there seems to be at least a thousand others that are just re-ha... [More]

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How Search Engines Take Advantage of Advertisers

Thursday, September 8, 2016 9:21 PM By Joe Crescenzi

I've got a BEEF with Google and Bing.

Google and Bing make billions of dollars when people click on ads in their search engines. So, if you search for "hotels in Miami", they return a Search Engine Results Page (SERP), which contains a mixture web site listings, and ads from companies who pay to be listed on that page. Fair enough, but what if somebody already knows what site they want to go to, and types the exact domain into the search box?

When somebody enters the exact domain they want into the search box, the fair thing would be for the search engine to bring the visitor directly to the website... NOT a search engine results page.

The reason the search engines don't take the visitor directly to the site they typed in is pure greed. They know that by taking the... [More]

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Google / Bing People Search

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi

Remember how easy it was finding somebody using the phone book? Why do search engines do such a lousy job finding people?

Have you noticed how hard it is to find people using search engines? If you search for somebody by name, you get 100,000+ random pages in no particular order.

It seems to me that search engines like Google and Bing should have a dedicated tab for finding people, just like the tabs they have for news, images, videos, maps, etc.

I'm not advocating that we place private information online, just the information people are already posting publicly. So search result pages could simply start with the public profile pages on all the major social media sites like Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Flickr, etc.

Beyond that, addit... [More]

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