{"id":2958,"date":"2011-01-06T14:58:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2011-01-06T14:58:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T19:58:59","slug":"trouble-in-the-house-of-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/06\/trouble-in-the-house-of-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Trouble in the House of Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/trouble-in-the-house-of-google.html\">Jeff Atwood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/trouble-in-the-house-of-google.html\"><p>Anecdotally, my personal search results have also been noticeably worse lately. As part of Christmas shopping for my wife, I searched for &ldquo;iPhone 4 case&rdquo; in Google. I had to give up completely on the first two pages of search results as utterly useless, and searched Amazon instead.<\/p>\n<p>People whose opinions I respect have all been echoing the same sentiment&mdash;Google, the once essential tool, is somehow losing its edge. The spammers, scrapers, and SEO&rsquo;ed-to-the-hilt content farms are winning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2617546197\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2617546197\"><p>Google was designed to play the role of a passive observer of the internet: web content was created for people, not specific Google queries, and Google would look around, take inventory of what was available, and give it to people who asked. Google&rsquo;s general, big-picture algorithms probably haven&rsquo;t changed much since the days when this was relatively accurate.<\/p>\n<p>But that&rsquo;s no longer what web content looks like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been noticing these problems, too. Very specific, phrased queries used to be gold, but now they often bring up perfectly tailored spam pages.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Atwood: Anecdotally, my personal search results have also been noticeably worse lately. As part of Christmas shopping for my wife, I searched for &ldquo;iPhone 4 case&rdquo; in Google. I had to give up completely on the first two pages of search results as utterly useless, and searched Amazon instead. People whose opinions I respect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}