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Originally Posted by Martinscholes
"You are advocating damaging the quality of the search results that Google provide me and everyone else"
No, Martty. I am not.
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Yes you are. You want Google to include all copies of press releases in the search results. I don't want that and neither do most other searchers (one copy is enough).
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And I did get my facts right.
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No you didn't. You claimed that Google penalized sites for duplicate content when that is just not true. All they do is filter out duplicate copies.
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Google had a problem with duplicate content. They fixed it. But the fix seem to have caused problems for webmasters.
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So? Google are providing search results for searchers; not a ranking service for webmasters.
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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.
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What problem? Google just filter out duplicate copies of pages so that multiple copies do not come up in the search results. Thats not a problem for the searcher. It might be a problem if your site is one of teh ones that Google chooses to filter out, but why should Google care?, they only care about the quality of results for the searcher.
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But do not penalise online news publishers when they use quotes and or press releases as the basis of a news story.
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But they are NOT penalizing them!
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That just makes Google look amateurish, in my opinion.
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Given that Google's market share continues to grow at the expense of other search engines, Google have obviously got it right in what they serve up to searchers. It does not matter how your or my site gets ranked or what they filter etc etc,.... its all about what the searcher wants and as the market share is increasing, they obviously on teh right track.