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Comment by Maro | Hacker News Reader

Idea: a campaign to mobilize people to use Google's new reordering/removal feature to punish evil sites/businesses. I suppose these changes are somehow reflected in the ordering other users see (?). Targets:

1. Experts Exchange

2. Yelp

3. ...

I already delete experts exchange links from my Google results.

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You realize of course that Google's reordering tool only affects the results they display to YOU, right?

Please tell me you haven't been furiously hitting the delete button in the hopes of tidying up the internet!

Currently. They might do more with it.

I already have a couple people on board the expert sexchange deletion effort.

Yelp was really useful to me for a while, but now I am worried about. I know a couple of local businesses that received a ton of business from the reviews, more than they could handle.

Just out of curiosity, whats wrong with experts exchange?

They include the answer to the question in the page so Google and other pages pick it up. You'll often see part of an answer in the blurb under the link in the search results.

When you follow the link, it hides the answer from you and basically tries to shake you down for money to get access to it.

Individually the practices are ok. When dealt with together, it is a nasty business practice.

Alternate explanation: Google "experts exchange sucks"

Alternate explanation 2: If you first found the site while looking for an Expert Sex Change, you might still be bitter.

The answer is there on experts exchange even to non-google, you just have to scroll way to the bottom. But yeah, it sucks.

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