Yahoo “Answers”: Menace to Civilization
Have you ever noticed that when you do a Google search for something, often among the top five results will be something from a site called Yahoo Answers, and it is invariably useless? It’s a place where boneheads post their dimwitted questions and random Internet boobs provide nonsensical answers, one of which is chosen by the original asker or similarly clueless voters as the “best answer.” Meanwhile, Google crawls the page and its vaunted ranking algorithm judges it to be among the most valuable pages on the Web so that it can pollute our search results for years to come.
How many thousands of hours have been lost due to this worse-than-useless Internet offal and its inexplicably high Google rankings?
Ban Yahoo Answers, Obama!
April 16th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Yes! You have no idea how many pregnancy/baby questions I have typed in and hit upon that stupid site.
BTW, I’ve read a third of Taubes book. Wow! It’s like a nuke directly hit the food pyramid.
You ever read his other books? The book on the Nobel prize looks interesting. I ask because he seems like the kind of guy I’d get a lot out of regardless of the topic.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
I know, right? After reading Taubes, when someone cites the “latest scientific consensus” as support for their beliefs it does absolutely nothing for me.
I haven’t read his other books but I’d like to.
May 18th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
http://failblog.org/2009/05/18/improvement-fail/