Re: Google is destroying website rankings
"You are advocating damaging the quality of the search results that Google provide me and everyone else"
No, Martty. I am not. I am merely advocating that Google actually think about the likely consequences of their actions. And I did get my facts right.
I used to work for a firm that used the 'Googlish' approach to problems. And caused more problems than were solved.
Someone would point out to IT that the system had a problem. Rather than examining the problem and properly coming up with a solution, they'd do a quick fix. Which would cause another problem somewhere else on the system. They'd be appraised of this problem, so they'd then do a quick fix for the problem they had caused. Which would then cause another problem in another part of the system. And so on and on.
Google had a problem with duplicate content. They fixed it. But the fix seem to have caused problems for webmasters.
As you will be aware, this website is for webmasters and others who run websites and e-businesses. So I raised something that is causing concern for some website publishers. Especially those who publish news-related sites.
Martty, I am not organising a petition. Where on earth did you get that idea?
All I want is for Google to come up with an equitable solution to the problem. Yes, reduce duplicate content, if Google perceives that to be a problem.
But do not penalise online news publishers when they use quotes and or press releases as the basis of a news story. That just makes Google look amateurish, in my opinion.
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