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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 25 (UPI) -- U.S. search giant Google says it will make changes to demote "low-quality" or "shallow" Web sites from search results, a move aimed at "content farms."
The change to the company's search algorithm, which will affect around 12 percent of Google search queries, comes following pressure from the media industry and many of Google's users, the British newspaper The Guardian reported Friday.
Google has been criticized for allowing content farm sites like Demand Media -- sites that churn out thousands of articles a day based on popular search terms -- to "pollute" its results.
"This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites -- sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other Web sites or sites that are just not very useful," Google said in a blog posting.
The move is seen as part of Google's attempt to attract news organizations and other "high-quality" content producers, The Guardian said, after some publishers' content slipped down in Google search results as the impact of content farms grew.
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