Deceptions on Campus

[Nell]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

...It would save you some embarrassment...

To potentially save you even more embarrassment, it might be helpful to understand a little about how search engines work. I'm no expert, but I do know that search engines, such as Google, are optimized. That is, to get the most accurate information, you need to know what the search engine/s are optimized to look for, then optimize your web site for the best match to suit your purposes. So, how a search keyword and/or term result is ranked may have more to do with the configuration of the target website itself than the keyword/s you type in. Search for: SEO or Search Engine Optimization.

https://support.google.com/webmaster.../7451184?hl=en

You may notice that advertisements seem to float to the top. That's because advertisers pay to be moved to the head of the ranking line. The pro-Local Church sites may be optimized to the hilt, while other sites with lower rankings may need some tweaking. So it would seem that all searches are not created equal because of the SEO and the website itself and less to do with actual content. So analytics of "hits" may produce skewed results when arguing to prove a point.

Nell

[Evangelical]

This all shows that UntoHim's concern is not warranted. I am not too concerned about what college kids might find Googling. As I have found, the vast majority of hits about general searches for Witness Lee and the local churches are positive or refute negative claims. The reason why that is the case does not concern me.

Another consideration is that college kids these days are not really Googlers anyway. They are more Twitterers and are used to reading one line sentences, I doubt they read past the first few hits that Google returns,or actually click on a link and read it in detail. It would require a certain amount of effort to find information about Daystar for example or any particular example that might be discussed on here.

All in all, Google is not helping college students to be saved from the "LC cult", and neither is this forum if it does not show up in the first page of a Google search.

[Nell]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

This all shows that UntoHim's concern is not warranted. I am not too concerned about what college kids might find Googling. As I have found, the vast majority of hits about general searches for Witness Lee and the local churches are positive or refute negative claims. The reason why that is the case does not concern me.

Another consideration is that college kids these days are not really Googlers anyway. They are more Twitterers and are used to reading one line sentences, I doubt they read past the first few hits that Google returns,or actually click on a link and read it in detail. It would require a certain amount of effort to find information about Daystar for example or any particular example that might be discussed on here.

All in all, Google is not helping college students to be saved from the "LC cult", and neither is this forum if it does not show up in the first page of a Google search.

If that's what you believe, then why are you wasting your time posting on this forum?

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