followgreg - 8:04 am on Feb 15, 2007 (gmt 0)

You guys will take the following for what it's worth.

I was talking earlier about some low quality sites we did not have time ot take care of and that were doing very well these days while quality sites were having trouble.

Here is one of our sites I did not even look at for at least 4 month.
Nothing is updated for over 1 year (no kidding...), almost 100% of backlinks are identical (some old partnership, not textlink ads) and there are not a lot of them trust me.
Well guess what: ranks N1 for every 3+ keyword combinaison either on the home page title or in backlinks.

In addition it is everything but w3c compliant or unique content. It has no authority whatsoever, no sign of quality whatsoever (I mean nothing, like a development site that is unfinished). Just one site we would be ashamed of compared to some of our other sites, project was stopped long time ago...sorry we just forgot about it more or less, it happens.

The only thing that the site mentioned above has and that other don't is google analytics. Not sure if it is related, but it should NOT, and I can't even remember why we did that...for a test probably.

I truly wonder what this is about, ok ok ok we will place adsense on this site...

But seriously I am amazed to see such low quality results from Google, I keep on reading the good words: quality, clean, content freshness and all I see is the less effort the better results. (for a few days, getting worst).

I was making fun of MSN, teasing Yahoo, but now I feel that there is a real opportunity for a real new search engine.

...to google guys if reading this: it was difficult for me to say that yeah some of the sites we have are not good, they had no popularity, we don't care nobody does so why a well formed algorithm would consider them relevant? Would rank them along with wiki cancer?

And why good sites, up to date, relevant, with visitors reading the info are getting in trouble?

No, I'm serious I would never have imaged that happening in 2007 with all these billions and Phd's and everything, it looks like back to square one on some search terms.

I never thought I would write anything like this about google, ever.
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