Does Google look out for the search engine user's best good?

Beverly Level X³

August 28, 2012, 1:31 pm

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Does Google look out for the search engine user's best good?

Google claims that it's looking out for the search engine user's best good by making all these changes to search engine algorithms.

For instance, they say that Google Panda, helps eliminate the duplicate content results helped the user experience as it cuts out the number of times sites with duplicate content are seen on top results and helps site of original publication get featured in top search results more easily.

However, if this is true, then there should only be ONE site that gets ranked for an article. But I can still search for a random phrase and come up with EVERY site that has republished one article using that phrase. Shouldn't those duplicate pages have been taken completely out of search engine results so as to enhance my search engine experience?

And, also Google Penguin is about penalizing spammy backlinks, so that bloggers/site owners who use natural SEO (such as allowing users to backlink to their site) are more likely to end up in top results rather than sites that use mass (Blackhat) backlinking campaigns. But, i've heard from some sites that have quality content that they were penalized with Penguin even though they didn't feel the backlinks they had were spammy.

Do you think all these updates help search engine users have a better search experience? Or, do they unjustifiably penalize sites?

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Tommy Matalino

We can say that that phrase shows up many times on Google search, but are we sure that they did copy the whole content? I mean, they could rewrite the other paragraphs and retain this phrase.

14 years ago

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Beverly

That's a real possibility. In one particular situation of copied content, a particular Youtube video was posted across numerous sites along with and accompanying article (which helped supplement the video) and the text of the article was copied verbatim from one site to the next. Yet all this showed up in Google for that phrase. It was a short phrase like 'make money affiliates' or something like that, not even obscure. If Google did a lot to get rid of duplicate content, why is so much of it out there?

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Corzhens

Google being the biggest search engine may be thinking of straightening out the pathway of the industry. Maybe it has come to Google’s attention that users are doing the so called black hat method of SEO that is tantamount to cheating hence Google is formulating ways and means to combat such illegal acts. I believe that Google is after the good of the search engine industry since it is on top of the heap and couldn’t be easily toppled.

7 years ago

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