I have been asking Google to remove Goodreads landing pages from search results on searches I run, as I find out that those pages are simply fakes for SEO. That has completely turned me off to actually using Goodreads, which was originally recommended to me by a good friend. A company has to be pretty nasty to get me to disregard a word-of-mouth recommendation by a friend.
Can you explain more? I ran a few searches where goodreads results show up and I have a hard time seeing how it's different from Amazon results. The page has useful information about the book, people's ratings and reviews, where I can buy it, etc. How are these "fakes"?
In my case, I run Google searches on people's names, and there is a link shown to a [person's name] review of [book] on Goodreads, only the person in question has never posted a review of that book! There is no such content by that person on Goodreads. I definitely know that in the case of my own name, which I check by ego-surfing once in a while to see what people are putting up on the Internet about me. I've seen some other spammers over the years that have been removed from the Google directory, and it looks like Goodreads will have to be the next site to get that treatment.
