There’s a post on BoingBoing today about "spam blogs" that look like blogs but are really collections of zombie content set up to ultimately drive you to some affiliate marketing site. This offends me as a user but it also offends me as an English major (I imagine that for every fake content site, some forlorn English major out there is going hungry).
Seeing this reminded me to post about my experience switching to all-Y! Search, all the time. I think there’s a Coke-vs.-Pepsi perception of Y! search versus Brand X search (especially since Y! search used to be Brand X search). But after switching over full-time, I started noticing a few subtle yet useful tricks that you can’t get anywhere else. F’rinstance, the ability to put a domain that serves up garbage information in the penalty box, permanently:
"Block" is my friend. Who knows whether it will divert traffic from fake content sites on a macro level, but at least it gives me the satisfaction of dealing the death penalty to sites I never want to see again in my search results.
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“i’m crushing your head!”
“i’m pinching your cheeks!”
from the KITH skit “50 ways to kill a spammer”