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Google Tweaks Search To Punish 'Low-Quality' Sites NEW YORK – Google has tweaked the formulas steering its Internet search engine.The overhaul is designed to lower the rankings of what Google deems "low-quality" sites. Sites that produce original content or information that Google considers valuable are supposed to rank higher under the new system.The change announced late Thursday affects about 12 percent, or nearly one in every eight searches  in the U.S. Google Inc. said the new ranking rules eventually will be introduced in other parts of the world, too. This latest change will be difficult to miss, according to Google engineers. "Google depends on the high-quality content created by wonderful websites around the world, and we do have a responsibility to encourage a healthy web ecosystem," Google fellow Amit Singhal and principal engineer Matt Cutts wrote in a blog post. "Therefore, it is important for high-quality sites to be rewarded, and that's exactly what this change does." Yet, their goal seems to be to weaken what has been referred to as "news aggregating" websites as "one change that primarily affects sites that copy others’ content and sites with low levels of original content." This clearly describes many sites that present alternative news. However, plenty of alternative news sites and blogs have original material which they freely share, in part or in full, purely to support one another in disseminating the truth. This is of key importance to spread information in the absence of government or foundation funding, as enjoyed by much of the mainstream media. It is also a counter to censorship, so that a free market of ideas can flourish where people can investigate facts for themselves, rather than have opinions dictated from a limited number of sources.
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