Comments on: Google Joins the Market Elite and Will Fold Because of Weaknesses

By: pittfall

pittfall — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:01:29 +0000

Tarheel,
Thanks for the comment. Google has definitely been viewed (at least more recently) that the results have been slipping in the relevancy category.

By: Tarheel

Tarheel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:21:32 +0000

For our purposes of internet research Google flops. The first page results are often off topic or some little directory or adsense sites. We use MSN and Yahoo for more on topic results and this saves time.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:59:28 +0000

Esta,
Google hasn’t made a major adjustment to ranking results in some time. Relevancy is in the eye of the searcher. As Brian stated in the story, Google is selling against their search platform that was considered as the most relevant a few years back to get users to their other services that they added on, like gmail, blogger, youtube and such. Now that they have the user’s attention, they are keeping them there because of everything else.

Will this keep them on top? I can’t tell, but like my response to Glenn, Google is in the driver’s seat… will they maintain control or slide off the track?

Thanks for the comment!

By: pittfall

pittfall — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:53:19 +0000

Glenn,
Thank you for your comment. If anyone is in the driver’s seat on relevancy it is Google. They have the traffic, but what they do with it is totally up to them. It remains to be seen, will they be able to adjust to please your needs in search?

I guess we will see!

By: Esta Weiss

Esta Weiss — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:24:18 +0000

As an SEO and web designer, what the engines are doing is pretty important to me for my cleints. Googles results are slipping, to the poijnt were anyone knows that past the frist 10 pages or so of results, it rapidly degenerates. But the top 10 results are slipping as well , with far too many paid links and ads. I’ts funny Google is death on paid links, yet their own results are full of them. With often a match of less than 10%. so useablity is suffering. If the engines want the relusts to be relavant, paid links of any kind, have to go.

By: Glenn Welt

Glenn Welt — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:57:05 +0000

Google search is dead. Brian Cooley hit the nail on the head. I’ve started using Yahoo and MSN for all product or service searches and find that they return the most relevant “top ten” results.

By: Sphinn: New and Upcoming Search Marketing News and Discussions

Sphinn: New and Upcoming Search Marketing News and Discussions — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

[IMG Avatar] Posted By: pittfall 4 hours ago Topic Type: News Story (Jump tohttp://www.seopittfall.com) view profile Category: Google Searching Tonight a story on Marketplace on NPR, Kai Ryssdal and Brian Cooley (from CNet) talked about the leap for Google’s stock to join an elite group of six total stocks valued over $600 on the NYSE.