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Posted by randfish

I’m more than a little skeptical of mainstream media articles about the search engines. With so many terrible experiences - inaccuracy, bias, shallow information, agenda-based reporting - it’s easy to see why. However, today I’m thrilled to see an article from Saul Hansel in the NY Times that’s not only impeccably well-written, but informative to even those of in most deeply inside the search industry. The article - Google Keeps Tweaking Its Search Engine - is quite possibly the best mainstream media article about Google, or modern search technology, in the last 5 years.

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Thanks Top Rank!Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Sunday, 21 of October , 2007 at 8:37 am

I’m honored. TopRank has called me “one of the best blogs on the Internet.” I don’t know what his criteria is for saying that, but it’s an honor worth mentioning and I’d like to thank the Top Rank Blog for giving me the mention. I’ll do my best to continue living up to that expectation.

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Should companies that claim to vigilantly fight web spam allow people to advertise spam tools on their network and sell the spam tools using their payment processor service?

Google signed a billion dollar ad deal with MySpace, and at the same time recommends people buy friend bots to spam the same website:

What’s among the biggest contributor to blight on MySpace? The leagues of sock puppet profiles and automated friend requests that jamb your inbox. Google — the company that stands on a soap box attacking companies for SPAMMING their index to manipulate search results — is selling keyword advertising for software designed to create fake profiles and send SPAM friend request.

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