Wager2winUK –
lots0,
Here is the results for Yahoo
We were talking about google… yahoo is a completely different search engine with completely different algos that generate the SERP. If we would have been talking about the yahoo search engine my statements would have been quite different.
Do you have any examples from googles SERP?
JOE_DEEDS –
if Google does not punish these black hat webpage’s, and feels that only 32 out of 10,000 complaints are valid issues (from lots0s’ post), how can you place trust in method used to evaluate these sites?
I think your missing my and googles point.
What you and some others call “black hat” is not really against googles guidelines, that is the point.
google’s job is not to police the web for non-payment of taxes or to do any type of law enforcement or censorship on the www, google’s job is to index websites and rank them for search queries… end of story.
(However, I have argued in the past that google is responsible for any damage caused by sites in its SERP, but I got shot down in flames…)
A site that link spams or redirects in a sneaky way or tries to manipulate the search results is not the same as a site that may or may not be involved in some type of scam to ripoff peoples money, personal information or involved in some other illegal activities. These are vastly different problems that require different solutions. google can deal with the link spammers but the scammers and law breakers are a different matter altogether and are not really googles problem they are a law enforcement problem.