Whats the real story behind the so-called money keywords list filter?
We believe that the ‘money words’ filter list effect was just a spin-off symptom of the Hilltop algo. Each time, someone attempted to run a search term like “real estate -hgfhjfgjhgjg -kjhkhkjhkjhk”, Google passed on this entire search term to Hilltop. Since Hilltop was unable to locate sufficient ‘expert’ documents containing this ‘funny looking’ search term, it produced zero result. (read zero effect). This essentially means that the Hilltop was simply ‘bypassed’ with the exclusion search term. The rest of the Google algo was then left to extract and display results, which obviously looked identical to the pre-algo-update results. The growing popularity of www.scroogle.org led Google to detect this bug. Google fixed this bug by kicking in the Hilltop a 2-step process. The exclusion terms are withheld while passing on the query to Hilltop; Hilltop does its work and extracts results, passes results to Google algo, Google excludes the terms just before displaying results. Simple. Exclus
