Google Updates Algorithm To Punish Websites With Excessive Ads 321
hypnosec writes "Google has decided to take punitive actions against those websites that flood the top of their web pages with ads due to which the visitors have to scroll down to finally view the relevant contents on the page. According to Google, this type of layouts annoys the users and thus the web search company will be penalizing those websites through search results. The company disclosed this on its blog. According to Google over the top ads is not good for user experience and thus such websites might not get high ranking on Google web search."
Re:There are no acceptable ads. (Score:5, Informative)
Even worse are the flash ads, with sound, and flash is so bugged that put 2-3 of them in a single page and you have a 70% chance of crashing.
What annoys me... the "+" modifier (Score:5, Informative)
What annoys me is when I search for a particular word or phrase, and Google takes me to a page which lacks that word.
I used to be able to type "+blankie" and google would show only those pages that had the word blankie in them. No longer. It just says that + is no longer supported, and takes me to a load of pages without that word.
Re:There are no acceptable ads. (Score:3, Informative)
Agreed. Adblock Pro, plus NoScript, plus RemoveItPermanently make my web browsing experience a lot more stable and secure.
In fact, I won't run a browser without them anymore.
Re:There are no acceptable ads. (Score:4, Informative)
You could just buy a router, flash it with Tomato (I use Toastman's USB version) then enable a script on the router to block advertising domains. My script updates itself every four days, so it's always current.
Not only do I block all those annoying ads on my own computer, but the wife and kids computers too. The improvement in bandwidth is dramatic. You lucky people with real broadband may not appreciate how much bandwidth is lost to advertising. Those of us with 1 MB or less bandwidth notice!