Google Quality not Search Relevance
 

GOOGLE has plans that will dramatically improve the results of internet news searches, by ranking them according to quality rather than simply by their date and relevance to search terms.

The ambitious system is revealed by patents filed in the US and around the world (WO 2005/029368) by researchers based at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7328

It's gonna affect the SEO business alot !

There's no future in SEO.

Thank God...Now the spammers with the keyword stuffed pages on freehosts can't pop up out of nowhere.

only the news searches?

"..This means that articles carrying more authority, say from CNN or the BBC, can be ousted from the first page of results, simply because they are not as recent or as relevant to the keyword entered in the search line..."

edit : answer ;)

The patent also reveals that the same system could be roped in to rank other search results, not simply news. So sales and services could in the future be listed on the basis of price and the reputation of the company involved.

Right, news searches.. and likely to apply it toward all searches where possible.

Google dropped gas into the fire when it comes to spamming search engines when they created Adwords....it's ridiculous the bajillions of pages there is now with no content on the pages except adwords..

and i'm not gonna lie..i'm guilty of doing this too..but i do think something needs to be done about this. the whole internet is a fucking mess right now.

patents are the new domains