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BGumble - 9:23 pm on May 8, 2003 (gmt 0)


It certainly does NOT add to the surfing experience when 6 of the top 10 results are simply more search engine listings from other engines like Gigablast. Why would I go to Google and then want 6 top results that are simply other search engines? What happens when those search engines start listing similar pages then it is just one big mess of meta-search result pages.

The surfer is not clear on where they are going-- the meta-result pages pull in other sites descriptions when they are displaying their listings. The meta-tags from other sites are used in the Google listing since it pulls from the text.

I know of three domains doing this successfully in Google, but I'm sure there are many more. They have many thousands of these false-result pages in the index:

example1.com (276,000 pages)
example2.com (44,800 pages)
example3.com (51,500 pages) -- this one used to cloak every one with a redirect

Thanks for the prompt attention GG, I hope this gets sorted as it could get messy.


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