Finding more high-quality sites in search

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Google has announced a change today for the US to start with with the aim of finding more high-quality sites in its search.

But in the last day or so we launched a pretty big algorithmic improvement to our ranking—a change that noticeably impacts 11.8% of our queries—and we wanted to let people know what’s going on. This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful.

Full blog post here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html

 

[orchardapple]

looks like trouble for a good many ecommerce sites using standard product descriptions

 

[Blossom]

I don't think so, from what I read they seem to be targeting content farms like ehow, demand studios etc.