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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 04:52 PM EDT |
The only worthy place for a aggregator site is the garbage dump.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 05:02 PM EDT |
Does anybody have a list of aggregator sites,?
I'd like to block them from my search results, because tbe triple, if not
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 05:35 PM EDT |
"Aggregator sites"?
In the Open Directory we call these sites "affiliate banner farm
spam".
In mixed company, at least. Other terms may be used sotto voce.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 06:16 PM EDT |
The global nature of the interwebs business is revealed in ways that
the US DoJ doesn't even begin to understand. I'm getting more than
annoyed that Google not only gives me aggregator sites instead
of the source that I deliberately chose my search term for, but these
are geo-located so that I'm lulled into thinking they are local sites.
Nope, they're run from mother ships in the other hemisphere,
but with green curtains preventing me from getting to the real
source.
Even more scary is this one password fits all. I've been logging into
gmail with Eudora in the hope that it would dislocate me from
some of the cross-site nonsense. Got a fright the other day,
gmail logged in via Eudora, use Safari to go to Youtube,
and I'm logged in there too. No, it's not cookies, I've got
a cookie purger and I tested it, it works. Oh, different
username too. Google allows different nyms for different
services, so long as they all use the one password tied to a
unifying account. Might have been cookie crumbs, but my
tinfoil hat tells me they were testing this new service...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, August 09 2012 @ 08:27 PM EDT |
Google only shows your email to you until someone messes up a configuration file
and your email gets cached and served to the next person who does the same
search.
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| Authored by: Wol on Saturday, August 11 2012 @ 02:31 PM EDT |
"Only my email" what do you mean? Where I am in the "To"
field? That's what *I* meant.
And yes I know the aggregators are trying to get Google to rank them higher. But
the argument Google should be using against them (which can have no sensible
riposte) is that "if the searchers really wanted them, we would have an
economic imperative to rank them higher. We don't want them because our users
don't want them."
And certainly I find them a nightmare because they mostly link to each other -
they poison my searches such that I can't actually find what I want - and if I
want to buy something but can't find a web page that actually sells it that's a
major bug in the search system!
Cheers,
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