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Yahoo Hand-crafting « LZZR Wordpress Blog — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:32:30 +0000

[...] reminding how important this issue is Yahoo Hand-crafting This is how Yahoo hancrafts SERPs. Sorry about re-posting this mut I just fear that the original might suddenly disappear from [...]

By: LZZR

LZZR — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:29:32 +0000

I begg to differ on this - it is a BIG STORY and I'll try to explain why I think so. In SEO business we operate under illusion that things like this could not possibly happen. This underlying assumption is what keeps SEO business running, otherwise the whole SEO industry is pointless. I personally always believed that all big players contrary to their own statements use handcrafting on their SERPs at least for a sample of the most competitive keywords precisely for reasons mentioned in your post: if you ran one of the largest search engines in the world... etc It's been shocking that for several years most SEO Gurus were or at least pretended to be in denial (and it ain't a river in Egypt) about this and demanded a hard proof - here you get it at last! Now why this whole issue is so important. We assume that SERPs are delivered as a result of clever algorithms executed by a computer - in other words they are done by a machine, not a human being and hence can be positioned as impartial and objective. As soon as you introduce a human check into the system you inevitably have to deal with subjectivity. What's the difference, you ask, who cares if the SERPs are done by a machine or as a result of human editing? The difference is of the crucial nature and it is systemic! To put it simple - you can not bribe a computer but you very well can bribe a human checker. In a multi-billion search engine marketing industry I doubt there will be no webmasters willing to offer and no search engine employees willing to accept bribes for human editing SE results in a particular way. It is systemic because with this you create a system that is unsustainable as in order to prevent internal abuse of the system will have to introduce levels and levels of supervisors over initial layer of handcrafters thus introducing a cancerous ulcer into the system. And please, don't tell me that this will never happen because in general human nature is good and every search engine employee would rather starve to death than accept a small private donation (read - bribe) - we've seen it all, just look at the level of DMOZ corruption (if you happen to be unaware of this search for corrupt DMOZ editors or something along these lines in Google). I hope I managed if not to convince you than at least to explain why to me this is indeed a BIG STORY.

By: myscreenshot

myscreenshot — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:37:00 +0000

Wow. hard proof eh? LZZR, if you ran one of the largest search engines in the world, would you want to leverage the help of your 10,000+ employees who spend 8 hours a day using your search engine for quality testing?

Using that link to report spammy results alerts people in Search to check it out. Period. No big story here LZZR, sorry.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:11:32 +0000

Hard Proof of Yahoo hand editing Search Results…

It’s been a matter of hot debates in SEO community lately – now all the rumours have to end here as we have a hard proof on our hands. A screenshot carelessly published by a Yahoo employees reveals an insider information confirming that it is a common…