How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did Not Commit

Re:How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did No... by peapicker on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:39AM (#7291680)

It is Google's fault that their pagerank algorithm isn't sophisticated enough to handle understanding that internet domain ownership isn't static, and for not understanding that spam sites pointing to 404s on another site are a prime indication that a change has happened.

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Re:How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did No... by darkarmani on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:53AM (#7291772)

> It is Google's fault that their pagerank algorithm isn't sophisticated enough to handle understanding that internet domain ownership isn't static

Nothing about their algorithm cares about domain ownership -- and why should it? Ownership can be gamed. If your domain has a bad reputation other reputation based services like SiteAdvisor are going to affect your domain as well.

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Re:How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did No... by revelation on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:41AM (#7291691)

Spammers are certainly able to have the whois data on a domain changed. It's simply a catch 22 for Google.

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Re:How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did No... by PaulHoule on Monday February 24, 2014 @04:52PM (#7293658)

PageRank is smoke and mirrors. Usage data, sampled either from Google Analytics or the Chrome browser, is orders of magnitude more useful.

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Re:How Google Nuked Sports Media Watch For A Crime It Did No... by tzakrajs on Monday February 24, 2014 @03:10PM (#7293118)

Then you have sites returning 404s to Google spiders for illegitimate links once they've expired their use.

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