WSJ Dissects Traffic Power Complaints & Search Engine Bans

WSJ Dissects Traffic Power Complaints & Search Engine Bans
Search Engine Watch - USA  - WSJ revisits the Traffic Power case against SEO Book's Aaron Wall -- though this time, diving into complaints about Traffic Power by customers saying ...
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050922-075345

 

MAKING A Case For Metasearch
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA The Wall Street Journal's article on SEO firm Traffic Power, and the problems experienced by some of its customers, makes for very interesting reading.
http://www.webpronews.com/insidesearch/insidesearch/wpn-56
-20050922MakingACaseForMetasearch.html

 

[ Comment: This second item mentions how Vivisimo creator of "Clusty" thinks that bloggers are harming web crawlers by creating "noise" with cross-linking, link-bombing. and "commercial efforts to skew Google PageRank Scores".

 

First off, if you name a search engine "Clusty", you need to fire both your domain name research team and your product manager, in my opinion.

 

Second, if search engines are concerned about blog content not being relevant, it's fricking easy to filter out all that blog junk, since most idiots (like me) just install it into a directory with some variation of the word "blog" and/or call it "this blog" or "that blog". -(hris ]