Injustice in Search
Posted on: December 28, 2007 by Syzlak
One thing that I have desperately tried to in my life is quash injustice. That’s a lie, but I’m not a fan. Which is why I was very upset to see that the Rubber Chicken Awards have decided to ignore fairness in order to pander to the same tired search crowd.
The injustice that caught my ire? The inclusion of posts from the same site. However, maybe that’s because in every list there has to be 3 from SEOmoz. For good measure, let’s throw in 2 from Sebastian’s Pamphlets so people don’t notice. While both are fine blogs, I think it is horribly unfair to the other nominations to be kicked out of the running by multiple posts from the same blog.
Am I upset that SEOHack’s posts were not considered? Sure, JDog from BlackBookData nominated the Worst SEO Blog Ever very early on in the competition. So was Streko! Funny fucking guy that Streko! Some of the posts were actually informative with hints of humor, or what my English teachers used to refer as ‘voice,’ rather than being simply “Bizarre, Funny and/or otherwise Irrelevant (or Irreverent)” as the rules had originally requested. Was Mystery Guest’s post on things to do when Rand’s at a conference very funny? Not really. It reminded me of those “40 things” lists (irritate roommate, you’d like to say at work, only happen in movies, ways to skin a unicorn, etc). Funnier would have been the ‘Things overheard at PubCon’ post by Rebecca…but I digress.
In the comments for nominees I saw maybe 20 links to unique websites, and maybe at most 30 links total. So obviously Mike had to work pretty hard to narrow the list down to the 10 finalists. Well, wrong again, as instead of doing the honorable and just act of creating a FAIR contest, we see that there are 15 finalists! Kudos for omitting your own submission, but un-Kudos (is that the opposite of Kudos?) for taking the easy route and going with 15 posts from 11 sites and ignoring the rest of the bloggers that work hard at creating irreverent posts to make our lives as SEOers just that much more fun.
