The worst thing about Google

August 30, 2006 – 5:09 pm

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Google does something that I really hate. They base way to much of their algo on unknown historical data, and once they get info about your website screwed up, you’re screwed. They don’t seem to ever get over Supplemental pages, they just hang onto them forever. I’ve known people who handled death and divorce better than the way Google handles a 301 or 404.

Google, LET IT GO, man. When a webmaster deletes a page, just move on. Maybe the page sucked. Maybe the webmaster was high on crack on when he wrote it, and doesn’t want it there. But for whatever reason, why can’t Google just safely assume a webmaster knows the pages on their website are not there?

Whoever the genius is that thought of the “Supplemental Index” is one of those people thought of as a pack rat. He’d rather store all the info then throw any of it away. I mean why not, he figured. Storage space is getting cheaper all the time so it’s easier and cheaper to store info all the time. But why place so much EMPHASIS on old data?

That’s where I think Google has really gone wrong. They’re unforgiving of old mistakes and overly willing to “trust” domains that could easily abuse them. Their current method of crawling and ranking is really crappy, IMHO.

What do you think of Google these days?

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