Vultures of the internet
An original article written by Web Builders.
A polluted knowledge base, the internet; where Google is failing us.
Everybody and their grandpa's are clamouring to the internet. It's growth is outpacing technology in many instances. Recent news of IPv4 running out of addresses is a good example. The problem that crops up all too often is that half the content you find is a regurgitation. Someone has just copied and pasted on the web. Some instances are so extreme that an entire web sites' purpose is to clone another site, simply to create a network of links. Why? Simple... Google weights search rankings heavily on this network of links.
There appears to be no end in sight, search engines are lapping this stuff up. Nowadays when you search for an answer, you have to first wade through this overwhelming and ever growing garbage heap. It's making 'life' on the internet a real PITA.
So what's happening? This rinse and repeat routine is killing the knowledge powerhouse that the internet has always been and what it was originally intended for. Man has some how lost his will to create something new and unique. Surely creativity should flourish in the open and free environmnent that the internet provides. Are the vultures circling? Surely not yet but what is clear - we need a serious recycling effort, the alternative, the thought of drowning in the garbage is too terrible to contemplate.
Let's rant a little.
Kill content farms, that provide no real value to the knowledge pool.
It all starts with us, we have to take a stance. An internet revolution?
Let's start taking the stance many universities have had to - plagiarism is a big NO!. Blacklist and shame the guilty.
Link weight is not the answer only the value of knowledge should be.
Hyena's on the digital super highway.
Spam sites have the search engines by the balls.
How do you identify polluted knowledge in your search results? For a start, any result with the words Best, Top, Excellent, Awesome, Amazing, Free etc.. are almost guaranteed to be content farms. Click on any one of these pages and you are immediately presented with a slither of an explanation, with 500 million ads flying on your face. The colors, the bling, oh my!
Other websites are far more sneaky. They suck all the content off a bunch of related sites. drigg in my case (the bane of my existence). The content is concatenated with a read more link off to the source. In this case they don't have tons of adds in your face at least. But the damage is done, they have effectively filled the search results with junk.