"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
news:d6u6ql$1guq$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk...
> Stacey wrote:
>
>> "Borek" <borek@parts.bpp.to.com.remove.pl> wrote in message
>> newsp.sq85ylul584cds@borek...
>>> Search for pH calculation gives
>>>
>>> http://www.nd.edu/ ~mjm/EG112_module4_lect3/sld018.htm
>>>
>>> as a third hit. This is ridiculous as there is no content
>>> on the page - only keyword and title.
>>>
>>> Google is stoopid.
>>
>> Sorry, Borek but that isn't necessarily true. A page doesn't need to have
>> the phrase or keywords listed on a page. A page can become relevant
>> through links to it. Look up Google bombing. You didn't say if a good way
>> to reach you was through your contact on the website I asked you this on
>> another thread.
>
> I think you are missing the point. Links or no links, listing of a page
> without content _is_ stupid and it shows that algorithms which Google rely
> on are/can be weak.

I think you missed the point also. You didn't read all of the thread. There
is *content* within that slide show. Google is not indexing nothing. The
page is *relevant* to the search.

>Need I even start a discussion about comment spam, which is a result of
>that
>nasty algorithm? Try starting your day, every single day, erasing P0ker and
>V!agra comments from your pages.

Don't allow people to post their URL's or make comments. It is the people
who comment spam or allow them to do so not the SE's fault.:-)

>...and then come Google et al. with a 'bugfix', telling everybody to change
>links in pages to include rel="nofollow". I say: fix your bloody methods.
>Don't tell us how to write our sites.

Well, there could be a fix. Do not index any comments. Sure that would work.
Why would you think that following links is a bug it isn't? Telling you how
to make you site would be just don't allow people to comment.:-)

Stacey