Google Search Formula Tweaked

Reportedly, 12% of search requests will be affected.

Google says it has tweaked the formulas steering its Internet search engine to take the rubbish out of its results. The overhaul is designed to lower the rankings of what Google deems "low-quality" sites.

That could be a veiled reference to such sites as Demand Media's eHow.com, which critics call online "content farms" — that is, sites producing cheap, abundant, mostly useless content that ranks high in search results.

Sites that produce original content or information that Google considers valuable are supposed to rank higher under the new system.

Original content? Valuable info? Heh, I'd like to think that generally applies to Interested-Participant.

We'll see.