Google Improves Search: Less Low-Quality Sites, More Recipes
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On Thursday, Google announced two changes for search results: a “recipes” filter and improved search algorithms. Sounds pretty tasty, all around.
It’s first announcement helps your inner chef find the perfect recipe in now time. In Recipe View, when a user search for a specific or vague recipe or ingredients, Google only brings up recipe results. You can further narrow you search by selecting your ideal ingredients, cooking time, and calorie count. Note: things with more tend to taste better, so I’d avoid the calorie limiter, or not; it’s you’re choice.
The second announcement explained that Google tweaked their ranking algorithms to reduce rankings for low-quality sites and improve the ranking for high-quality sites. So which are which? On its blog, Google said low-quality sites are “low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful” and high-quality are “sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.” The change impacts about 11.8 percent of Google’s queries and only affects the U.S. right now.
More ways to find the best cupcake recipes and less content farms and ranking gamers in search results sounds pretty good to me. I’m going to go make some banana cupcakes now.
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