I was searching for some information on KillerInfo today without much luck. Then, I thought I'd hit paydirt. But when I went to the site I discovered it was a blog, with one person's thoughts about the subject I was researching. A waste of time and a slight rise in my blood pressure.
Don't get me wrong. That person has every right to sound off about whatever topic he chooses (just as I'm sounding off about this). But I'm finding increasingly that search engine results are filled with blog entries rather than the factual information pages for which I'm searching. I wish there was a way for search engines to separate the wheat from the chaff.
And now, some bloggers (who really need to get an outside life) are deliberately trying to influence search engine results - most notably Google. What they hope to achieve by this, I don't know. Do they really think that by somehow getting their "I hate Verizon" (or whatever) page to the top o' the google charts they're going to change Verizon's policies or convince even one person not to use Verizon. (I'm not even sure what Verizon is; I think it's some American telecom firm. All I know is that some bloggers really have it in for Verizon and are trying to manipulate Google search results to have their diatribes at the top o' the charts).
Do they not realize that they're not changing reality? They're only artificially manipulating their particular view of reality?
Then there's googlebombing, defined by Microcontent News as a concentrated group effort to influence Google rankings. I just can't see the point of this. Anyway, it makes me glad I use KillerInfo, and not Google.