Effective Home Treatment For Colic, What Do Search Engines Know?

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by Anne Agar

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.

Give this a little thought and you'll soon realise we all fall into this same trap and trust the search engines too much, whether we need a baby colic cure or something entirely different.

Whether dealing with a baby with colic, tackling a personal matter, or feeling the need to learn more on a subject we have to write about for the company website, what's the first thing we all do?

We use the search engines! And a lot of us 'Google' it. We do it so much that the word Google has become a verb! We tell friends who have questions to 'Google' it. Need a home treatment for colic? Anyone could guess what you'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 have written 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...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.

Being just software, the engines don't have any judgement about whether what has been written has any basis in truth. They cannot discern truth from fiction or error.

Some search results shown are from stuff written years ago. Not being present day stuff means it might easily be not true anymore, even if it once was. Events unknown to the writers of these earlier articles might indicate that the truth lies elsewhere, which seems to be what has happened with a baby colic cure.

This is worrying. Readers might not notice the date of the original article and just take it as present day information. This matters when a colicky baby needs a cure.

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!

Next, of course, those searchers include in their own new article the stuff they've just read in the search results (re-arranging the words of course, to avoid plagiarism) and they appear to be somewhat expert on the subject although they're not. Heaven help colicky babies if parents are relying on these articles which are likely to be inaccurate.

This is why lots of babies still suffer colic and cry every night and online searchers looking for advice for their own assorted health problems might read wrong information. Wrong opinions or errors in thinking are perpetually showing up in search results and the blame lies with those 'trusty' search engines!

As time goes by the situation worsens as more and more websites display incorrect statements. Of course, to the innocent searcher, each website seems to verify the truth of what others have written on their websites and there's hundreds, no thousands, of them writing about colic. Folk start to believe it.

The mere fact that a statement is incorrect doesn't mean it won't be believed. If it's printed and often shows up in search results online it starts to be believed and accepted. This is very often a real shame for anguished parents of a baby with colic.

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.

But, when her website does show up in the results, she is surrounded by nay sayers, the websites who state the opposite of what she is saying. Thus doubt must creep in for the reader. The same thing must have happened to others who offered their knowledge online.

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 in the English speaking world. You can learn more about her views on colic and infant treatments