Google on Friday announced that it has adjusted its search-engine ranking system to demote so-called “low quality” sites and boost the rankings of sites with original content and substantial analysis.
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The trouble lies in the quality of information — a thorny problem due to the subjectivity of “quality” in general. Google keeps tweaking its algorithms, but the junk content keeps rising to the top. In the arms race against sp…
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In a blog post on Friday, Google made its most direct warning that it would be tweaking search algorithms to punish “content farms” — cheap producers of Web content that either copied or scraped information from other publish…
Facebook ruled the Internet in 2010. It was both the most-searched term — accounting for 2.11% of all searches — and the top-visited website, attracting 8.93% of all U.S. visits, compared to Google’s 7.19%.
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