Bob La Quey wrote:
OK. So create a better search engine.
Non-sequitur.
The problem is not creating a better search engine. Those dead pages
will still exist. The pages with nothing but Google-dreck will still
exist. Even your mythical "better" engine will have to deal with that.
The solution (for the end user) is for Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google to
all split the search engine about equally. Then, specifically gaming
one engine will be likely to drop your ranking on the other two.
Suddenly, Yahoo can exploit the Google-dreck to clean up their listings
and the Google-dreck will go away.
What I really want from a search engine is the "Junk" button from
Thunderbird which is used to help train your spam filter. When I run a
search, I want to be able to classify sites as "Junk" so that they start
dropping in Googlerank for me.
Even better would be to be able to download and then share this with
somebody else. For example, I'm pretty sure that I would be very happy
to add Stewart's "Google Junk Corpus" to my own.
Meanwhile we muddle along with less than perfect tools,
blaming them if we must, but rarely throwing them away.
I don't think I agree with that.
I would argue that computer folks are a little too eager to throw things
completely away when a little more polish is actually called for.
-a
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