I use Chrome and its Block sites extension. My search results are now getting quite good in returning signal vs noise. I only wish Google allowed this natively in their search results that way the general public can vote these concepts down on either a per account level or global.
--- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.riagenic.com On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:09 PM, noonie <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
