Google and its Discontents

It is a sad day when you see Google do something mean and mindless- I have nothing against Google doing something about content farms, of course.

But I read the sad news that The Digital Inspiration and The Complete Review- two of the best in what they do- which is producing excellent sum up of what is happening in their area of interest have been sorely affected by Google's changed algorithm.

They are not actually farms, if you look at the produce. Any self-respecting farmer would quit whatever farmers do if they are given The Complete Review and The Digital Inspiration as content farms. They don't produce much- may be a couple of posts per day. Do you call that farming?

Sorry Google, this is mean and mindless of you.

We are disappointed. People will find a way to go to these two sites, because they are one of the best in business, and any search engine that hides them in page fifty does not know what its business is. We will get round it sooner or later.

Google will the the loser, and we with it.

Hope Google does something about this. Something real Quick.

PS: Lest people cavil, we are happy to be labelled one among the content farms and laid to fallow. We have no complaints about inhabiting page fifty of Google search results. Or page hundred, for that matter. We would count it a honour to be entertained in Google's backrooms.

Related articles

• Effects of new Content Farm Algorithm from Google (kish.in)
• Google Targets Content Farms With Major Search Algorithm Changes (huffingtonpost.com)

Advaniji, please note, Google is pseudo secular.

I don't know about you, but Google Search Box is an entertaining place. All you need to do is type in a search term, and suggestions from Google come up, and it is a good way to waste some of your precious time doing nothing of any importance.

For example, when I type Tendulkar is, the recommendations are: subcontinent's cricketing jewel; not a matchwinner; god.

And when you type, "dhoni is", you get a suggestion that questions his parentage- and 4580 people have explored this particular issue.

But what inspired me to make a post of this is this post at Pharyngula, where I found that  you can do this with hinduism, buddhism, christianity and atheism and Google serves up some damning suggestions, but when it comes to 'islam is..." Google is lost for words!


How's that for pseudo-secularism?

Google Social Search

This is an exciting feature you will love:Google Social Search.

This is right now experimental, and what it means is that when you make a search in Google, you get stuff from people you know (at the bottom of your search results). You also have the choice of looking only at your friends' stuff by clicking "Social" after "Show Options".

You can read more about this at the link you find at the top of this post.

Now, I am enclosing a poll form here- I do this only because I want to give you the option of making your comment right from where you are reading this- if you are reading this as a feed via Google Reader, it okay, just click the box and make your comment (sorry, it becomes public only after three days- but you can view the comments made in this box here at Google Docs.)