Google losing the plot ?

[aotagain]

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Just bizarre results and not just occasionally.

Put in the name of a specific bit of golf equipment and up comes a crappy price comparison site, nothing to do with golf.
Indexed at position 1.
Adsense at the top of the page. No prices, despite the implications of the website name.

Just click to get details - straight to retailer site - cookie dropping crap at its worst.

Each word of the phrase I put in mentioned once, SEPARATELY on the page.
The rest of it, random golf products.

Been through a few niches just for fun? Same sort of results.

I really wish some of these sites had to submit a manual approval process to Google before they get pages indexed for all this crap.

OK perhaps they are only there for a while.
But multiply that by 1001 other piles of rubbish and one way or another, they're there all the time.

Hopefully, the same thing will happen to them as happened to the directory sites a couple of years ago.

[Richard101]

have you got an example out of interest?

[tulipkiya]

If you are really upset with a specifc result of Google...

and you found some kind of scam data...or google cloacking page.....running over..it..


you can report the site...over google.......and it will be removed...help google imporve......

there are millions of pages..indexed..per day.....and millions of queries....every day....

Improvement of results.....are best in google....and its working on the best...platform...

[Mogga]

Report them.
You can do it in google webmaster tools
http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

I would do it each time you spot a new domain doing it.

[aotagain]

Yes, have been doing - just having (another) moan really.
I'll have to be careful or they'll mark me as a spammer though ;-)

Part of the trouble is, some of them are sort of legitimate websites, its just that they are no help whatsoever, so from Google's point of view they're very poorly targeted search results, next to useless to a searcher and are taking the place of something more useful.
So perhaps not spam as such. I guess can just report them as a rubbish result and let G make their own conclusions.