tampa hotels = useless crap
tommyTimes Online: Wikipedia founder plans search engine to rival Google. The new user-ranked results search engine may be called Wikiasari.
Says main wiki dude and St. Peterburger Jimmy Wales:
“Google is very good at many types of search, but in many instances it produces nothing but spam and useless crap. Try searching for the term ‘Tampa hotels’, for example, and you will not get any useful results,” he said.
Go ahead, try searching for the term and see what Jimbo’s talking about.
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December 26th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
I get exactly what he means — the overcommercialization of results that lead to travel sites and 4th party sites (meaning out-of-the-mainstream travel web sites that are only affiliates of other travel web sites).
The same thing comes up with sport teams web sites — you’ll get ESPN, CNN/SI (or just SI) and other major media sites in most cases but the fan websites are generally low on the result list.
December 26th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
I believe Google calls it “paying the bills”.
December 26th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
I get lists of Tampa hotels, reviews of hotels, plus phone book info on a few hotels. What should the response be?
December 26th, 2006 at 4:30 pm
I had the same experience as Jason. I got a list of hotels, and reviews of hotels. So what.
December 26th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
Usually when you do a search — you get pages that are from companies trying to get you to book into those hotels. Not the hotels themselves.
It’s the third party listings.
I guess when Wales is aiming at is a DMOZ styled search engine (but not a catalog?) that represents the official sites on the web — not third parties representing them.