chiyo - 1:37 am on Oct 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

Crimblues wrote..

Chiyo: In other words.. Google has decided to being not-relevant in commercial queries? Maybe Google is tired of being 'owned' in commercial areas.

What i meant was that Googleguy knew that all of us SEO's targeting Google was leading to problems in the relevance of SERPS for competitive areas. Basially Google would be happier if SEO's didnt exist at all (of course). Their algos just can't compete against thousands of professional and amateur SEO's, especially where the content is usually very similar.

Therefore his post months back asking (pleading!) for us to target other search engines, had some method in it's intial "madness". The fact that people are saying that search engines that dont get the attention that Google's has by SEO's have better results in competitive commercial areas, seems to back up the real reasons why he said that.

My view is that any search engine that gets the attention from SEO's like google has will eventually suffer in competitive areas. Googleguy just wanted to share that nuisance more eqitably (from Google's point pf view) :)

At risk of repeating myself, Google's strengths in PR and link popularity just does not work with commercial sites where SEO is very evident, as comemrcial sites do not naturally link to each other and they have to use workarounds and artifical methods to get to the top. All which makes for problems in the SERPS for relevance.

Adwords may indeed, provide better relevance for commercial sites, the fact that it is PPC aside. The observation that google may be trying to force commercial sites to pay for Adwords by providing sub optimal main database results is an attractive theory, but another explanation may be just that they CAN'T reliably rank commercial competitive categories as they can in informational areas where backlinks and citation come naturally. Thats been increasingly obvious for months.