Comments on: Google SERPs: Can you dig it?

By: Addiction Rehab Centers Blog

Addiction Rehab Centers Blog — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:32:00 +0000

I think it would be a interesting experiment. Obviously people could try to manipulate it but I think Google could extract information that could improve search results (especially by building up databases of people that linked the same pages you liked… and provide results that were like by those like you).

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:21:35 +0000

It would be great if Google went this way, but it would have to be a factor in the search algorithm, not the only deciding factor to establish rankings. Otherwise, there will lead to a whole new “social search link exchange” which will be another terrible black hat abuse tactic…

By: Dave Shaw

Dave Shaw — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:31:32 +0000

Hello! Thanks for the comments. I am not one of the lucky individuals either.

I agree with Link Building Bible (useful site by the way!) that it is almost like saying their algorithm is poor. I wonder how much weight they give to user comments/votes? There was a video over at TechCrunch showing that users can remove a listing from their results completely! I wonder what effect this has on everyone’s results (if any?).

By: Content Writing

Content Writing — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:15:21 +0000

I think that it’s an interesting test, to see how personalization of that degree could improve or hurt quality of rankings…

By: Link Building Bible

Link Building Bible — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:00:14 +0000

I am not one of the luck individuals…. but if they were to implement it and give a lot of weight to it, it’s essentially be saying that their algorithm is a failure (and some might agree that it is) but i doubt that Google would ever come to that conclusion. They know it’s not perfect and continue to tweak it, but by implementing such a human based approach, as opposed to their precious algorithm would just be admitting failure.