{"id":17,"date":"2011-02-27T02:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watt-media.com\/b\/?p=17"},"modified":"2025-01-24T04:48:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:48:44","slug":"google-makes-major-change-in-search-ranking-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/google-makes-major-change-in-search-ranking-algorithms\/","title":{"rendered":"Google makes major change in search ranking algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to ongoing complaints that search results do not often yield the highest quality websites first, Google announced that they it some modifications to its search algorithms. \u00a0The result of this change is supposed to be more websites with original, quality content ranking higher. \u00a0Insiders say that sites such as eHow typically rank highly, but offer shallow and lower quality content, and in a rare public admission of fallibility, Google made this change and 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