Sponsored Content Ruins Search Results.
29Jan2009 Filed under: I'm Just Sayin' Author: LaLaLauraJust a small gripe, there.
Seriously, though, as someone who has actually profited from monetizing my blog, I suppose I shouldn’t side with this point of view. However, as an internet user who is trying to FIND things online, I’m realizing that monetizing blogs has all but destroyed the usefulness of search engines.
I just moved into a new house, and I’ve searched for various things over the past month – things like, bathroom fixtures, shower curtains, guides for artfully and tastefully hanging groupings of framed pictures, which is the best 47″ flatscreen TV for the money, security cameras, skins for my LG Dare, how to turn off an alarm system you know nothing about, and so on and so forth. And every time I search for something, I have to wade through pages of fake blogs and other sites that don’t help me with what I need, but which have somehow deceitfully clawed their way to the top of the search engine results. They’re accessorized with all the right keywords, and I’m sure they’re making a few bucks here and there from AdSense, but they’re doing nothing more than wasting my time and everyone else’s. It’s frustrating as fuck, really.
I wish there were some way around it. Any thoughts? Is there some “unscrupulous greedy assclown” filter I can turn on so I can ignore those fake sites and just get some real results?
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Laura, also known as LaLaGirl, is the mother of a teenager and two young sets of twins. She's happily married, loves living in Colorado, and writes almost daily about married life, raising multiples, and parenting a child with autism. In addition to playing Barbies and pretending to eat plastic food all day, Laura spends most of her time folding clean laundry, obsessing about the amount of sugar her kids eat, and vacuuming up Polly Pocket accessories. She's obsessed with Yo Gabba Gabba, red wine, and Family Guy. Questions? Just ask. Care to Subscribe by Email?
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Suzi
January 30th, 2009 at 10:09 am
I wholeheartedly agree, Laura. SUCH a pain to filter through all that crap. I think our only hope is to wait for the next hotshot 17-year-old nerd to come along with a super duper algorithm that identifies paid content and filters it out of search results.
threeundertwo
January 30th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I pretty much assume I wont find what I want until I get to about page 3 of google results now. Drives me crazy.
I think that stumbling good blogs helps them rise to the top and benefits everyone, so I try to remember to do that.
Amy
January 31st, 2009 at 2:24 pm
That is just one of the reasons I stopped doing paid blogging. I hate all the rubbish that is out there now! It’s sickening.
Amys last blog post..Facebook & A Short Update
Julie
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:16 am
So, all information of the world is at your fingertips… if only you could find it. I think it is sort of like shopping at Ross or Marshalls (not to disparage them) – you have to be in it for the long-haul. Sigh.
Lisa
February 20th, 2009 at 7:18 am
Hey, nice site. I hope you don’t mind that you are on my Entrecard favorites list
By the way, how do you like the LG Dare?
Lisas last blog post..Contest is over!
LaLaLaura
February 20th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Honestly, I love it. My husband has it too, and he likes it less than I do – but he is resistant to change! He had an old Motorola Startac for thirteen years!! The Dare takes great pictures (see my Flickr stream – most of the recent ones are from the Dare) and the only complaint I have is that the touch QWERTY keyboard takes some getting used to.