It's Not Just Google With Disappointing Results
We have been poking hard at Google for disappointing search results, but Google is not the only search engine that has been disappointing me recently. You can group Yahoo and MSN and even Ask.com into the search engines that I have been disappointed with.
Over at the Search Engine Roundtable, I cover what I call “forum buzz,” the discussions taking place within the SEM/SEO community. I tend to pick up on algorithm shifts and post the details at my site.
Today, I covered two threads, one I named Yahoo! Also Easy To Spam and the other MSN Asks Webmasters What Are Quality & Authoritative Sites. But what really got me was Danny’s postscript on Google Sub Sub Domain Issues Clearly Visible showing Yahoo has a similar issue.
Typically, I have always had a search engine to fall back on when one wasn’t “doing it for me.” Today, I don’t have that search engine. Google pushed me over the edge with the Sub Sub Domain Issues. Yahoo is easy to spam with comment spam (ummm, nofollow not working?), and MSN is being laughed at, IMO. Ask.com, they are good, but way too slow to update at this point.
To make it even worse, Google still refuses to take a stand on the whole cloaking debate. Just take a look at the back and forth in our Search Engine Watch Forums thread!
So where does that leave me? Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask.com are all disappointing right now. Tomorrow? Well, I can always hope for a better tomorrow. Who knows, maybe a new Google will come along? Maybe AltaVista will rise up again?
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