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Written by Anne Agar

Tuesday, 22 April 2008

Babies are still crying with colic pains but why do I put some blame on Search Engines?

by AnneAgar

Babies are still crying with colic pains but why do I put some blame on Search Engines?

When baby colic happens to a newborn the situation is soon distressing. Quickly parents learn why their baby is crying so much and a good percentage of them have a home computer and look for help in finding a home treatment for colic by using one of the search engines.

Think for a moment and recognise the error of our ways. We completely trust the search engines to supply good results if we search for a treatment for our baby's colic or information on anything at all.

If we want to know something, whether it's about a colicky baby or it's a personal problem or we want to help a friend or maybe we want to research a subject so we can write an article and publish it online, our first move is what?

We head for the computer and select our favourite search engine! And more than 47% of us 'Google' it. Originally, Google was just a made-up word. Now it's used as a verb. 'To Google'. So, if we need to learn how to cure baby colic, well it's obvious what we'll do.

What I'm saying here is that we go to the pc, do a search and click on some of the resulting websites, blogs or forums to read what other folk wrote about whatever our current interest is. One current interest, for thousands of unfortunate parents, is a remedy for baby colic.

The problem with this is something I've just realised (maybe I'm a little slow) but for others who might be a little slow too, I'll spell it out... All of the search engines are just software, nothing more. So if you do a search for information about your baby's colic pains or any subject at all, they will find articles, websites, blogs or forums, where your words (known as keywords, the ones you used to do your search) are mentioned.

Because the search engines are only software, they have no ability to judge whether an item is true. They have no way of knowing that.

When the results presented by the search engines include items written months or years ago, then possibly the items are not true any longer. Maybe they never were. The writer's beliefs are not necessarily the truth. This seems to be the trouble with searches for an effective baby colic remedy.

This is troubling to me. Worried parents might not notice if they're reading out-dated stuff presented as facts. They need to be able to find up-to-date facts about curing baby colic.

Now this is happening: People who have to write about baby's colic or indeed any other subject, think they need to know more before starting to write. So they search online to see what's been written before!

When they've patiently read lots of articles or comments left in blogs and taken notes, they write some of this newly gained material into their own article, seeming to be fairly knowledgeable, which is not the actual case. So for exhausted parents of colicky babies who keep finding the same kind of opinion on various websites, there is every chance they'll believe it, fact or not.

So babies go on crying every day with colic and folk researching other health problems they're suffering from are often lead astray too by the same kind of thing. It's because something that is inaccurate or just plain wrong, is perpetuated and it's the fault of the search engines we love to trust!

All the time the situation gets a bit worse because people are continually writing in blogs or writing content for their own website and they're including the well established but not correct statements they've read on other websites. There are many thousands of sites where the subject of babies and colic is covered.

Even inaccurate or just plain old wrong articles and comments can end up being accepted and fully believed if they're backed up by others with the same views. A crying shame for babies suffering from colic and their sleep deprived parents though.

One happy day, fresh content is written by someone new. This is the truth, not just a belief, but the true story of her being able to cure baby colic. So now what will be the result? Depending on her proper use of the relevant keywords her website might appear on page one of some search results. Yes, she did quite well with that!

There is a but though... That 'someone' writing their factual, helpful, accurate stuff is like a Voice in the Wilderness. All the other sites are still being shown, shouting down the little voice of truth. This must happen to so many honest folk trying to share their knowledge with an unbelieving world.

I do feel that the search engines and their inability to discern are partly to blame for crying babies still suffering from colic.

About the Author:

Long before having a pc the author was curing babies with her home treatment for colic but they were all UK babies. She learned her colic cure from a nutritionist and now cures colic wherever English is spoken. You can learn more about her views on colic and infant treatments

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