Search Geek Challenges – Google, Mayday, and Sniffing Google IP Addresses

This is one of those posts that will only interest a subset of my normal readers. UPDATE: Since I wrote this post, Matt Cutts of Google admitted that Mayday was an algo change targeted at serving up better long-tail results. It’s been implied that this was aimed at dealing with content farms such as Mahalo that rank well for autogenerated and scraped pages. For a different viewpoint and links to some... read more