who says Google's accurate? PayPal at no.7 for real estate query!

I personally think the fist results of the SERP's are not what the user is looking for.. But if you look over to the right of the page...

-RonMo

 

This is because for them relevant results means their page popping up in top.

 

what if what you want is a site which "sells", have the text link "home" more and is fast.. isn't paypal what you wanted?

 

I totally missed your post in the swarm that came right after.

McDar's theory was very good and for a while looked like it was correct. I haven't seen any more proof on my sites that it is, but time will tell.

I only lost ranking on one site, and I had a bunch of other sites go up quite a lot for many terms. The irrelevance I am seeing comes from the random listings that flat out don't belong where they end up being ranked. So far, I have only seen more ebay, craigslist, about and other listings begin to appear in the SERPS as the update continues.

Maybe if the ebay listings or craigslist posts weren't expired I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it. Realistically I don't think anyone can consider these relevant sites that add quality to the overall search results.