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Re:A new search engine by Matt_Cutts on Monday October 01, 2012 @03:04AM (#4595705)
"Personally I feel like Google isn't doing enough to combat black SEO techniques and content farms. This may be because they are trying to not piss off their users or because those content farms bring them too much revenue."

If it makes you feel better, Google continues to roll out iterations of both Penguin and Panda, algorithms which are targeted at black hat spam sites and low-quality sites.

In fact, this past Friday we rolled out a change to reduce exact-match domains (EMDs), which are domains like "buycheapviagraonline.info" that put a lot of keywords in the domain name in an attempt to benefit in search rankings.

Re:A new search engine by d0de on Monday October 01, 2012 @06:17AM (#4596106)
Huh. I thought it was an update to reduce specifically "low-quality" EMDs rather than EMDs with "a lots of keywords in the domain name". Or are these two ways of saying the same thing?
Re:A new search engine by Matt_Cutts on Monday October 01, 2012 @10:33AM (#4597179)
The new algorithm is designed to target low-quality EMDs. HN readers are less likely to know the term "EMD," so I went primarily for an explanation and chose the example to help convey the connotation of low-quality.
Re:A new search engine by d0de on Monday October 01, 2012 @11:12AM (#4597435)
Thanks!