I was trolling DocJeff’s LJ and an entry caught my eye: it was about Google. Ahhhh, yes, the ever glorious golden monkey on my back.
But it’s being a bad monkey … especially lately. Google has been Top Monkey of choice for a while because of the reliability of relevant returns, or so it used to be. It seems Google’s results are getting worse with every day that passes. An interesting article I saw on COTSE exemplifies this, giving account of recent problematic Googlean dealings:
“Besides being bombarded with gateway search engine pages no matter what term you type in, you are not getting relevant results. In other words, you are not seeing legitimate pages that other search engines like Yahoo will return.”
Despite launching their anticipated “Big Daddy” infrastructure, Google seems to be caught in a proverbial downward spiral. Hopefully Google can clean up the clutter before the SE-watching buzzards begin circling overhead.
Mara
Interesting. I read the article on COTSE, but hadn’t seen the other link. I’d noticed lately the Googlebots hadn’t been crawling my sites as often as usual lately…which is actually good. I see no reason why they need to crawl my websites 5-6 times a day. Perhaps this is part of their problem?