29 September 2012

The burial of Google is overdue


Has it happened to you that you were looking for information on some rare band, and you typed it in the Google search field, and you were overjoyed to see several pages offering you that band's records, discography, lyrics, mp3 downloads, karaoke and whatever; and then you opened the page only to see some fucking generic record shop that had not one bit of information on the band you were looking for?

For a long time now I've grown used to it that a large percentage of Google searches result in the first couple of pages being filled with crap sites that are using some sort of engine that creates a huge number of pages, which promise relevant information but are actually meant only to get high results on Google, so that people would be lured onto their website and perhaps click on something else and buy something.

It is an outrage that Google allows itself to be spammed like this. Remember why we all switched to Google in the first place? Because it had the stunning ability to give us just what we were looking for. Sometimes it felt really eerie, as if Google was somehow able to read my thoughts. Those days are long gone. This page I saw today was possibly the worst I've ever seen:



I mean, they have taken it to the next level. They don't even pretend to have what you are looking for! They say directly: "we don't have any of this", and Google still leads people to them. 
I ended up on that page accidentally. I wasn't looking for "Philippines Girl In Up Skirt". But the point is, someone who is searching the term "philippines girl in up skirt" is expecting to find something containing "philippines girl in up skirt". Instead, Google is taking him to a website that not only doesn't, but has the nerve to openly admit it doesn't. Obviously they have written a script which creates a number of fake webpages, obviously with no other purpose than to mislead the search engine. Such a site ought to be banned from the search engine altogether, because allowing such spamming eventually makes the search engine useless and therefore induces its users to switch to another service.

Anyway, people who are good at programming things, listen up, there is a huge market gap out there. Google may be swallowing one web service after another, but getting bigger is no substitute for providing good service. Google is a dinosaur ready to die. I am ready to switch and forget all about that G-shit the instant any proper search engine comes along.

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