Several years ago, when nobody had heard of google yet and people on the net were suspicious hearing this strange name, google was a valuable insider’s tip because of the quality of it’s search results.
Granted, the amount of spam and SEO (search engine optimization) fraud was pretty low back then and the only difference google made was that it often gave you what were looking for right on the first page, but still, obviously, sometimes quality gets noticed. And so, more and more people started using google.
With this happening, google became the largest victim of SEO fraud and search engine spamming in history. People out there are trying to reverse-engineer the google ranking system, build entire networks of dictionary-built nonsense sites, mirror the content of successfull pages, write automated systems for searching their own sites on google and who knows what not.
Recently, I’ve been trying Microsoft’s Live Search now and then. The blogosphere may plan my assassination for saying this, but the search results from Microsoft’s search engine are better. Less spam, better accuracy and no advertising in the search results…
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