Search engines have been an excellent tool for web users throughout the years, but the technology behind these search engines has a number of important limitations. . The bots and algorithms on which the most popular search engines rely can sometimes provide misleading results and link to useless pages full of nothing but ads.
Worse yet, these traditional search engines can easily be gamed by those with a commercial interest. There have been a number of instances in which pranksters, commercial organizations and those out to make a buck managed to get their own desired pages to the top of the search rankings, much to the dismay of ordinary web searchers.
Fortunately advances are being made to help address the limitations of traditional search engines. User generated content and social networking sites have a great deal of promise in this regard, but even some of the most popular social networking and content sites have their own limitations. As these sites have gained popularity they have attracted many of those same commercial interests, and both open and stealth advertising has found its way to those pages. And of course the success of the social networking phenomenon has led many large corporations to jump on the bandwagon, further limiting the promise of a great technology.
It often seems that ordinary web searchers have nowhere left to turn. On the one hand are those ubiquitous search engines, with the paid advertising sites rising to the top. On the other hand are all the Web 2.0 sites being infiltrated by advertising and useless content. Fortunately for those harried web surfers there is a site where content is king and where users rule. That site is known as Stumpedia.com.
At Stumpedia, bots and algorithms do not determine the ranking of search results or the content being displayed. Instead, actual human beings from around the world recommend web sites, videos, informative and entertaining articles, news stories and all manner of web content to others within the community. The result is a healthy and vibrant online community where the content is top notch and the results are on target.
There are many reasons to recommend Stumpedia to new users, but perhaps the most important one is the quality of the search results. Unlike traditional search engines that rely on bots, spiders and proprietary algorithms to determine the value of a particular website, Stumpedia allows actual people to read and rank web sites in order to determine their true value.
This article was brought to you by Evo Systems (UK) Ltd, a UK based search engine optimisation specialist.
