Netscape: Your Source for Lolita Preteen

Submitted by seobook on Fri, 2007-04-06 21:49

Rumours & Scandal

Netscape.com, once a well respected website, has fallen so far that they arbitrage Google's organic search results for keywords like lolita preteen. Perhaps good for their pageviews and ad sales, but wrong all round, IMHO.

Some other sites are doing it too, but they just can't compete with Netscape's authority.

Comments

yuck

Submitted by incrediblehelp on Fri, 2007-04-06 22:05.

I would think this is more Google's fault for indexing and ranking Netscape SERP pages.

I'm not too familiar with

Submitted by MrTurner on Fri, 2007-04-06 22:20.

I'm not too familiar with the organic arbitrage of search results, but are they actively making these pages live? Or is this Google simply indexing pages via their toolbar?

No Ads

Submitted by nevetS on Fri, 2007-04-06 23:22.

I could be wrong, but I don't see any ads on the cached page. Could it be that they want those visitors to start calling Netscape home?

Or maybe it's site that rank on those pages in Netscape pushing those pages into the index - similar to blog spam that points to DMOZ poker pages.

Thanks for mentioning this,

Submitted by MattCutts on Sat, 2007-04-07 10:46.

Thanks for mentioning this, Aaron; I'll pass it on. Indexing web search results like this isn't a good user experience.

search results

Submitted by billhartzer on Sat, 2007-04-07 14:46.

Didn't Google recently say that they don't index search results? Or am I mistaken?

Not exactly

Submitted by Sebastian on Sat, 2007-04-07 16:38.

They said "don't make your SERPs crawlable" ;)

your're right

Submitted by billhartzer on Sat, 2007-04-07 17:03.

You're right, Sebastian, maybe Netscape should read this.

Off Topic

Submitted by Sebastian on Sat, 2007-04-07 17:11.

OT: Did anybody analyze the power of links on SERP-like pages, including linked and crawlable "SERPs" for navigational purposes, recently? I going to believe this kind of IBLs sunk in Google's scoring.