[Search-l] Short interview with Jeremie Miller

[John McCormac]

Jason Pump wrote:
> I'm unclear, in terms of search engine bait, what is the difference? 

The difference is in an MFAer effectively having to build a bow and 
arrow from scratch and being handed a fully loaded M60 machinegun with 
almost unlimited ammunition.

> This is a huge problem on the net right now. I believe the solution to 
> that problem is to force/teach the monkeys to actually do something 
> useful with their time. Google has done nothing but exasperate the 
> problem with their business model. This or something similar could be a 
> solution to the problem that google has caused.

That would be useful. However it could also increase the level of 
duplicate content on the web because  of the way that the harvested 
content would be fed back into the webscape.

Grub is a crawler and detecting duplicate content will take a lot 
backend of processing.

> One thing to consider is that googles adsense product has generated a 
> barrier to entry to smaller web search engines by making it profitable 
> to propogate search engine spam on the net. Googles pageweight map 
> cannot be recreated at this point because they have previous knowledge 
> about the state of the web before their changes to their business model 
> caused the web graph to change. Do you really think that (fairly large 
> and evil thing ) was an accident?

Google's original idea was great right up to the moment that people 
figured out how to game it. The monetisation of the web would have 
happened with or without Google Adsense. However Adsense did accelerate 
that change and brought more players into the same market. There was a 
terrible inevitability about it all but to attribute it to Google being 
evil might be going a bit far. The web is not a static model - it is 
continually changing.

Regards...jmcc
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