"arccos" <arccos@hotpop.com> wrote in news:1121453977.767175.187510
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
> Ahh... so maybe that's why my site has gained a PR point... a change in
> the model. :-) Thanks for the tip. Sad to hear blogs are becoming
> "better" in Google's eyes. But I agree... link exchanges should be near
> useless. I always theought they possibly underranked one-way links, but
> that could lead to abuse with spammers triangulating links instead.
From what I gather in their beta discussions they are TRYING to get
Froogle to recognize and highly rank what would be considered good
"shops" on the internet. The graphics, news, newsgroups, university, and
"local content" databases are of course trying to rank things for that
purpose. And Google is supposed to become the place that people look for
answers on a subject. Of course things overlap. Shops for example can be
found in all of them. But they dont want a shop shoving itself to the top
of all the lists just to try and suck in more customers.
> Well, all I know is they're smarter than me coming up with the model,
> because Google is consistantly good.
Yep! Its a continual battle but they are doing pretty good at it. The way
they WANT it to work is that if someone puts in the word "hummingbird"
they get a list of the best sites for hummingbirds. Not a shop, not one
with a bunch of hummingbird graphics, not a team site which happens to be
called "the hummingbirds". The fact that a high ranking hummingbird site
also has a CafePress shop on the side selling posters or tshirts or mugs
that they made (blatant link for credit if I sparked anyones interest:
www.OddThotz.com/CafePress.html) is not a problem.
I can see why forums and blogs are hit more but it might not last. I see
too many people jumping on the blog wagon who have no idea what a blog is
for. And now some shopkeepers are adding one as an easy-to-update
billboard of new products because they know Google will visit it more
often.
Gandalf Parker