Is the web getting to commercial?

It's simple, the Search Engines should circulate a "Banned Website Address" Database, all people mis-using the systems are reported not to law in countries, but to terms and conditions of the search engines in use.

(Similar systems have been set up to try and crack down on spammers for SMTP and Sendmail protocals)

 

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Search engines do ban sites, that's a fact. Unfortunately it only takes a few minutes for somebody to start a new site. Sites on free hosts go up every 5 seconds, and domain names at around $8 aren't much of an obstacle for the casino/porn/warez types. There's no way search engines can ban sites as quickly as sites pop up... just as no one can get rid of email spammers as fast as they pop up.

Actually I've found Google's search results are still very good if I'm specific enough. I have no trouble finding solid noncommercial information.

 

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Wouldn't search engines that charge money to post the sites be the most effective because people who don't know what they are talking about wouldn't pay money to post bougous material. (well in theroy of cource)

My person search engine top search engines would be:
1. GOOGLE
2. MAMMA

Worst:
1. Altavista
2. Web Crawler

 

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Go to http://www.overture.com and http://www.findwhat.com and try to tell me they seriously have good search results. They use that system, webmasters bid on search terms.

Much of the best stuff out there is noncommercial, and no one (at least who's not fabulously wealthy) is going to pay money to list their very useful resource that doesn't have any revenue source.

 

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Yeah, those are pretty good search engines. I just hadn't really heard of them befor. My list was just the ones that I had heard of, and the ones at the time I liked the best.

 

Well, it's good to hear the PPC search engines work for someone. I've always found them totally useless, because I rarely want commercial results. When I'm searching for very obscure terms that come up in some essay somewhere on the web, google is perfect and PPC ones like overture and findwhat are useless.

The thing that amazes me about Overture (formerly goto.com), though, is that they have a huge amount of traffic, dominating the PPC market, and each click on a search result generates 5 cents up to several dollars for them... yet the company still can't break even somehow.

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