A major shift in the way business is done? No A potential change in tactics ? Sure The internet is rapidly evolving, things in 09 will be different than they were in 08 , which was different from 07, which was different than 06. Things change, but the top will survive , the people who are just getting in on things now will have the hardest time.
Until i see it i won't believe it i don't ever stay logged in while browsing , don't use their chrome hype either and i am sure i am not alone. so what can happen? they put my competitor in front of me because his services are cheaper or he has video on his site. common, If you spam you should be worried other than that sleep well, quality is not going to be affected by personalization
There will always be loopholes. Personally, I have so many ideas that I think Google can do to improve their results and I think they have implemented so of them. But there will always remain loopholes. Now if Google is going to consider traffic, bounce rate then people will devise different methods where people will spend more time on page.
It isn't the end of SEO or search and rankings as we know it but Google's own Matt Cutts (for those looking for a source - he's a good one) touch on this at PubCon in an interview with WebProNews' Mike MacDonald. You can watch the video interview at http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/18/what-googles-matt-cutts-sees-in-2009.
yea it sounds like a load of crap to me, google wants seo pros to give up so clients will spend their money on ppc.
Agree with you. Totally. Glad we can share experiences and techniques at DP so we can produce better results.
I've been noticing that when I log out of my Google account and do a Google search I get some *really* strange results. Seemingly random stuff. And perhaps most strange - the url's don't match up with the title & description. Is anyone else experiencing this?