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Google Boxes are BAD BAD BAD
These "Google Boxes" that are showing up all over the place are dumb. Why? Because they're self-fulfilling prophecies.
When you put a Google box on your site showing the top 10 results for some word, you're artificially inflating the rankings of those 10 pages!
I don't see any way for Google to know that they're seeing their own results and discount their value. And people thought Googlebombs were a problem...
Stop Googleboxes now!
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April 12th, 2002 - 12:17
this surprises you? These are the nitwits that thrive on their ranking in
the google index.
life!!!”
high my web site (or blog) hit count is…” form of penis envy.
These
“Google Boxes” that are showing up all over the place are dumb. Why? Because
they’re self-fulfilling prophecies.
When you put a Google box on your site showing the top 10 results for some
word, you’re artificially inflating the rankings of those 10 pages!
I don’t see any way for Google to know that they’re seeing their own
results and discount their value. And people thought Googlebombs were a
problem..
Stop Googleboxes now!
April 12th, 2002 - 16:47
At 04:23 PM 4/12/2002 -0400, Bill Kearney wrote:
>The fact that the “google narcissists” are doing
>this surprises you? These are the nitwits that thrive on their ranking in
>the google index.
Maybe I’m missing something, but is there any use for these google boxes at
all? I mean the google index changes regularly, but not often enough that I
need to see a new search on X everytime I visit someone’s site. I could see
the point in having an application that does regular searches, say twice
daily and then alerts a user to any changes, but OTOH the top 10 are really
not going to change.
I occasionally check to see where my animal rights site is on a search for
“animal rights” because it is always on the top 10. In the last 8 months
the various sites in the top 10 have changed positions a bit, but they’re
still the same 10 pages.
To see a lot of change you’d have to pick a search term that is about to be
hot — but then you could make millions playing the stock market because
you’re psychic rather than tinkering with a google box.
April 12th, 2002 - 17:10
I agree with you Brian, they’re useless. But they’re probably the kind of useless features that drive sales of a gimmicky product.
Jim