More poor Google / Wikipedia results

Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: February 26th, 2008 Published in: Google

Following on from my post the other week about Wikipedia outranking Google for the term “PageRank”, I thought I’d post this one as well: “search engine optimisation”

Page 2, the Wikipedia page for “SEO” which is classed as a “disambiguation” page (lists different meanings of a word / abbreviation).  Fair enough, useful for users of Wikipedia who happen to come across it, but the page itself even states:

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

If Wikipedia has the sense to admit the page is pretty much generic crap, then shouldn’t Google also make this association?  It can’t be that hard for Google to mark down disambiguation pages from Wikipedia.

Scott

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Comments

  1. Posted by: Lightning Bug Marketing Services Date posted: 29th February, 2008 at 12:30 am

    What chance do we have of achieving SEO marketing success when Google even hobbles itself!

  2. Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: 29th February, 2008 at 3:05 am

    Indeed! :) Unfortunately it’s more likely to mean they might change it in the future, and we all know how “minor tweaks” affect other sites! ;)

  3. Posted by: Chloe Edwards Date posted: 3rd March, 2008 at 10:59 pm

    Maybe what google needs is to revise their whole system as the whole thing can be just be bent over backwards with a small amount of google bombing

  4. Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: 4th March, 2008 at 2:46 pm

    In fairness to Google, the whole Wikipedia situation is a fairly unusual occurance - I doubt they would have expected such a site to crop up when developing a link based algorithm in the first place. Unfortunately that’s no excuse for allowing low quality pages to continue to dominate some SERPs.