yes, indeed! I have realized that google has increased a sites ranking for one keyword to #2! I have checked the rankings again with a proxy and saw that this site has normally a ranking of #20! I know that I have clicked this site lately quite often but I still dont want this site to be shown on this #2 spot! So, is this really what we want?
Am I missing something here? I understand what has been posted re: Google's customized search, but reading this from the Googleblog leads me to believe exactly what it states: As I interpert this, a searcher won't automatically receive personalized results unless (s)he clicks the link at the top right. The personalized results can be turned off, too. Another main concern indicated within this thread is privacy while searching. One can always use a different search engine...there are plenty of them.
Well you figure if you're site has a great rank and should be on page 1, but the person searching has a personalized search based on google you're site may not show up until higher pages. It could really suck.
Gotta love the continued ignorance and limited thinking ability of many in here. The purpose of this is to eventually only show people what they have already seen many times before. Great for idiots who only ever get online to check their own preferred sites, but for anyone actually looking for answers, you will now have to search even further down the results listings to get anything original. So much for better user experience. Much like the MSM, keep giving the idiots the same thing until they think it is the only thing. The uniqueness of the net to provide independent and out-of-the-box answers and solutions will become a thing of the past. As to all those of you who think that content is going to keep you safe, obviously you have not put much thought in at all. This has nothing to do with content, and everything to do with popularity. As anyone in high school knows, popularity does not come from unique and thoughtful minds, but from superficial and ignorant ones. For those who are looking for an internet income, this is the equivalent of franchises and malls in that original and small shops no longer get a look in, its all to do with big chains and flashy lights. Even if you ignore completely the SEO desires of many who want an internet income, this is only a backward move for the minds of the common man. Talk about dumbing down the masses, only give them what they think they want and no originality. <sarcasm> Long live main stream media and ignorant people!!! </sarcasm>
I wouldn't say I "hate google" for this. Maybe my site would improve from this. As long as I can find useful information on google, I am happy,
What is it with all this continuous Google bashing? I don't get the whole "bad for SEO" thing. If someone carries out a unique query, for say "low rate credit cards", and then lands on your page then this will aid your vote won't it? If someone is found before you then they get the vote? Well, if they do then good on em for working better with their SEO. Doesn't mean visitors won't keep looking down the pages. If it is such a problem then move to Bing and try and move others. If the worst happens from these new personalised results then use sites like Ezine or Twitter to receive traffic. Or use Adwords. Just remember that Google don't owe webmasters anything, they can do as they please with their search engine. Or am I missing the point here? Please explain lol
Forget about the past SEO work done on those sites which are here for a while now (5-10 years may be), but what about those new websites in the making, they won't ever get listed in higher serps due to personalized search result? No matter how hard you try, seo stuff, and how good your website is? it still wont get higher ranking, because those normal users will be shown their personalized search results, according to their web history. Wat The Heck!! Seriously sick of this Google Monopoly!
Yeah, your missing the point. I wrote a long explanation, but decided to delete the idea since you would never understand anyway. It would have required you think more than superficially and in more than single steps.
As some have said it should make no difference for unique searches. And if someone has been on one website that fit the term they are searching for, then that will be only site that's ranking is different than it would otherwise be. Therefore it might knock your site down one place, but that's it. It's hardly gonna go from page 1 to page 100, because someones been on one competing site.
I don't see it as necessarily a bad thing. Because people are different, they want to personalize the results by using your browsing history at Google to try to better determine what you are searching for. Their goal is to try to be innovative, and use the latest technologies to provide the best results they can. And it's no different from what you already get from some of the biggest sites on the internet. Amazon.com started using collaboritive filtering in 2003, where they look at the different sites that you have visited, and the other products you have clicked on, and they try to provide you with better search results on Amazon, and they suggest to you other products you might be interested based on products you looked at previously. Netflix.com had a contest a few years ago that awarded a million dollars to the individual that could come up with the best search results algorithm using cookies and collaborative filtering. They keep track of all of the movies you've seen and all of the movies you've rated and try to guess what movies you might want to rent next. All Google is going to do is use the links that you've clicked on at Google to try to provide a better search result next time you search on Google. It's not all that different from what amazon and Netflix are already doing.