Search Engines are Parasites

http://www.searchengineblog.com/interviews/interview_ralph_tegtmeier.htm

by mroman • 17 years ago

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barrkel• 17 years ago

Sounds like a lot of dodgy rationalization for some pretty shady practice.

mroman6• 17 years ago

"shady" refers to a moral or legal issue . . . these are technological issues, and need to be thought of as such.

prodigal_erik3• 17 years ago

He's talking about lying to search engine operators to trick users into seeing different content than they actually wanted. That's not capital-E Evil, but certainly unethical, wasting those users' time and making everyone's search results less useful.

krakensden• 17 years ago

This guy is selling software that generates "topical fillertext related to your targeted keywords and search phrases, implementing predefined keyword densities, randomized page descriptions"...

In other words, he's the parasite here. Instead of saying "make things people want" he's saying "don't do any work, just be really loud and leech content".

mroman6• 17 years ago

"In other words, he's the parasite here. Instead of saying 'make things people want' he's saying 'don't do any work, just be really loud and leech content."

That's interesting. Where did you get that from? If you had read the entire article, you would not have reached that erroneous conclusion.

dminor• 17 years ago

Yeah, you probably won't get banned from Google, but who really wants to take that risk?

mroman6• 17 years ago

That is a good point, and needs to be considered. From what I have read about their technology however, there are ways to substantially mitigate that risk.

CodeMage• 17 years ago

When people start being afraid of one company, that's the best indicator that the said company really needs some serious competition in the market.

fantomsurfer2• 17 years ago

The search engines are the parasites. They are making billions of $$$ using other people content.

agazso• 17 years ago

Without search engines how would you find that content?

mroman6• 17 years ago

I think the issue is not so much that they exist, the issue is that they profit greatly from content created by others without paying said others a single penny.

fantomsurfer2• 17 years ago

I don't say that they are useless. Point is that they are crawling the content, wasting bandwidth without paying for it.

The engines make the big money, not the webmasters.

Search Engines are Parasites

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