When entire domains are restricted from future search queries, it poses potentially serious problems for the individual writers for particular domains. This is because each individual voice will lose some of its personal identity and its ability to communicate. All writers of a given domain will be recognized or ignored more by the collective voice of the domain and less upon the merits of their own work.
Google Search Quality Engineers, Amay Champaneria and Beverly Yang, on March 10, 2011 made the following post on The Official Google Blog : Hide-Sites-to-Find-More-of-What-You -Want. In this post, Google highlights that users of the Google search engine have the ability to block entire domains from search queries. This seems to be another step that Google is taking in order to further assert that its aim for its search engine is to produce searches that are a beds of roses. In these beds of roses, searchers are more likely to find potential bed partners than bed bugs.
This statement in conjunction with other announcements on The Official Google Blog seems to indicate that Google is on a sort of search and destroy mission. To the best of my knowledge Google has not targeted particular sites by their name, such as Associated Content from Yahoo! or by perceived label, such as content farms or content mills. However, it really is no secret and it comes as no surprise that Associated Content from Yahoo! is becoming more of a bed bug than a bed partner in Google’s bed of roses that it lays out in its search results.
However, searches have been and continue to be garbled with unsatisfactory results. On the surface it may seem odd and benign that suddenly Google cares about the precision of its search results, particularly when it is wielding axes and not scalpels.
However, because Google is not targeting a specific site such as Associated Content from Yahoo!, it may turn out to be advantageous for Google that Associated Content from Yahoo! is among a myriad of other sites that are getting caught in Google’s systems to filter out potential bed bugs. This way Google potentially reaps the benefit of delivering a heavy body blow to Yahoo!, one of its chief rivals without specifically targeting them.
Those that underestimate the seriousness of these developments could be in for an extremely unpleasant surprise. Therefore, it is vital for the Yahoo! head; its team of officers and staff and its belly; the individual contributors for Associated Content from Yahoo! not to become disconnected from one another. For if this occurs, the Associated Content from Yahoo! brand could be snuffed out.
Originally published on Associated Content / Yahoo Contributor Network (YCN) on March 14, 2011
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