webastronaut - 5:01 am on May 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

Top 10 positions are haywire right now. One of my websites for the first time in 10 years (been number 1 with site links on generic non company name keyword searches) that gets great one way inbound links all the time has recently been bouncing from 5 to 4 to 3 to 12 to no where with a stupid Youtube video url following me in serps.

I'm also seeing tons of new sites (social blog types of sites) making it to the front page of Google but bounce around.

Just earlier today I was searching for some components for some old band gear that I own and none of the sites I have relied on are showing up in the top 10 of Google. I went to ASK and found what I needed and I have never relied on anything but Google for search until now. This is really crazy to me because now I see how I can game Google. Google is re-structuring for social networks and that's why the ISPs and such are now trying to figure out how they can give us paid commercials when we surf the web.

Where is the free web that I got used too?

By the way, Yahoo must have a spy inside Google because they seem to make natural search results change right after Google does?

[edited by: tedster at 5:09 am (utc) on May 15, 2008]
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