http://www.mcgelligot.com/2008/02/01/google-results-becoming-more-opinion-than-fact/ Thoughts of a Web Publisher Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:34:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.mcgelligot.com/2008/02/01/google-results-becoming-more-opinion-than-fact/comment-page-1/#comment-9 McGelligot on the Spot » Blog Archive » Google Tool Bar Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:10:05 +0000 http://www.mcgelligot.com/2008/02/01/google-results-becoming-more-opinion-than-fact/#comment-9 [...] The funny thing about all this is that Google’s algorithm makes me consider adopting unorthodox techniques, because playing by the rules is not helping. I have already tried to indicate the importance of the page by internal links. Google has chosen to ignore this, and pretty much ignore the pages about Iraq history altogether. No wonder the algorith seems to me to be failing and giving largely opinion results. [...] [...] The funny thing about all this is that Google’s algorithm makes me consider adopting unorthodox techniques, because playing by the rules is not helping. I have already tried to indicate the importance of the page by internal links. Google has chosen to ignore this, and pretty much ignore the pages about Iraq history altogether. No wonder the algorith seems to me to be failing and giving largely opinion results. [...]

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