Bacon Polenta update grinds on

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Google is at it again: another atrocious update that has the webmaster community up in arms. The so-called Bacon Polenta Update (named by Reseller at WMW) has shown a number of twisted knobs and overly sensitive spam filters that have left many webmaster’s spirits broken, if not completely shattered.

For all of the time Google spends “fighting spam”, they never really seem to get ahead of the battle. You can quickly look up any popular and competitive term and you will find tons of low quality results. The year 2005 has been characterized by disastrous update after update. Not to mention the huge amounts of sites that have received complete de-indexing and you really have to start to wonder what the point is.

Yahoo and MSN continue to build their engines, and they appear to be doing so on a few points that Google has forgotten about: relevance and comprehensiveness. To say the Google Directory is not fresh is a complete understatement.

I haven’t lost faith in Google just yet, but clearly the Bacon Polenta Update (not named by any of the supposed Techno-Elite), is a curious concoction that appears to be having many unintended consequences.

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