Or those bot-automated monstrosities that crawl the web for legitimate sites that score highly in SEO and then scape phrases and sentences into a mash-up that looks legitimate in Google/Bing results but end up being totally incomprehensible. These score highly as they consist of real content on (tens) of thousands of static html pages but every link is a click-through to advertising.
-- Regards, noonie On 14 July 2011 15:16, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >>If you fancy a flight to Perth and back you can borrow it for the weekend, >> but I need it back by the 27th. :) > > > > After an hour of searching and searching and searching (I think search > engines are broken!) I finally found a place about 4 suburbs away from home > that will do a weekend deal for the projector and screen for $150 from > Friday to Monday. The worst thing in web searching these days are those > “fake search engine” sites that intercept your request, reformat it > unreadably and recommend stupid results which are probably just paid > advertising. I think there was some furore a few months ago when Google said > they’d block these irritating sites in their search results. I hope they do. > > > > It’s not Friday, but here is a quiz question I’m going to ask people on > Saturday night. Using only mental calculations and guestimates ... > > > > If our sun was the size of grain of coarse beach sand (about 0.7mm across), > at that scale how far would it be to our close neighbour star Alpha Centauri > where the Space Family Robinson blasted off for back in 1997? > > > > Greg
