Last Friday, Google launched its largest attack on Web spam yet, issuing a search update that affected nearly 12 percent of all searches on its engine. Unfortunately, some innocent sites got caught in the aftermath of google's content farm assault. One of those sites was Cult of Mac, an Apple blog.
Speaking with Wired, Googler Amit Singhal admitted that the process was not perfect. ”We deeply care about the people who are generating high-quality content sites, which are the key to a healthy web ecosystem,” said Singhal. “However, we don’t manually change anything along these lines. Therefore any time a good site gets a lower ranking or falsely gets caught by our algorithm — and that does happen once in a while even though all of our testing shows this change was very accurate — we make a note of it and go back the next day to work harder to bring it closer to 100 percent. That’s exactly what we are going to do, and our engineers are working as we speak building a new layer on top of this algorithm to make it even more accurate than it is.”
But Yesterday night, Cult of Mac was released from Google Prison.
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