It's annoying as hell because Google promotes "freshness" over quality. You can get a very high position in Google by knocking off someone else's tech news story while removing half the facts and adding nothing of any consequence, as long as your do it quickly. This kind of blogspam also vanishes quickly, but only after the damage has been done.
Meanwhile anything that might actually be worth reading is somewhere around page 10...
Meanwhile anything that might actually be worth reading is somewhere around page 10...
...much like the way things were in 1997 with Google's predecessors. Funny how despite exponentially more layers of code running (with eons of iterative advances), it all still somehow comes full circle.
I feel like I keep seeing this all around. It seems that there's a point in the product after which any further optimization to "extract more value" actually degrades things. Comapnies need to learn when to stop messing with their product further and focus on something else.
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It's annoying as hell because Google promotes "freshness" over quality. You can get a very high position in Google by knocking off someone else's tech news story while removing half the facts and adding nothing of any consequence, as long as your do it quickly. This kind of blogspam also vanishes quickly, but only after the damage has been done.
Meanwhile anything that might actually be worth reading is somewhere around page 10...
...much like the way things were in 1997 with Google's predecessors. Funny how despite exponentially more layers of code running (with eons of iterative advances), it all still somehow comes full circle.
It's an interesting observation that agrees with my experience as well.
I feel like I keep seeing this all around. It seems that there's a point in the product after which any further optimization to "extract more value" actually degrades things. Comapnies need to learn when to stop messing with their product further and focus on something else.