What type of info does Google want to see regarding feedback

[Jenn77]

Hi all, The Florida update has me puzzled regarding the relevancy of the search results along with many others here. My personal opinion is that Google has tried very hard in the past to return the best results to the searcher, and I can't imagine they would change at this juncture. I know there's numerous discussions about just deliver good content, and the Google results will come, but this doesn't really hold true in all cases right now in terms of what I am seeing. I think that regardless of all the speculation, that Google's intention remains true to really do the best they can for searchers, and it must be an enormous job to try to come up with algorithms that combat the spam and "do the most good" for the majority of the people using it. Obviously, they can't keep everyone happy and yes, with each update some will rise and others will fall in terms of results. Having said that, I spend most of my time during my day job on the net helping teach beginning users how to use the Internet to conduct searches. With this latest update I am seeing statistically a much higher rate of non relevant results in my searches. Although I can't list the specific term here, today while searching for a two word term "blue widget" the #2 result was an adult site which clearly identifies itself as an adult site in their meta tags. The only relevance for this site was that they had the exact two word term in their title, and one H1 tag on the page with the exact title as well.

For another search term that was unrelated to the first, I am finding the same company which comes up for multiple terms in almost every city, again with unrelated content in terms of the searched term.In fact on their page in this case, there is a popup box that comes up with wanting the end user to visit or bookmark their sex site. In the 2nd case, I guess it would be useful to post a spam report to Google with regards to result #2, but would it be useful to Google if someone we could communicate just regular results that aren't necessary spam, but are returning non-relevant results? I know individual searchers can email Google individually about results, but could there be some use in trying to organize such a list so that it could be submitted to Google for someone in authority or to Google Guy to review? I also wonder if it may be useful to compile a list of adult related sites that have suddenly appeared for non-relevant terms with the latest Florida update.

Not sure if anyone else has suggested this or if this would be viable or helpful to do as I'm finding it hard to keep up with all the posts here.

To recap, how useful might it be to do the following?

1. Compile a list of regular searches that are not spam, but are returning non-relevant results.

2. From the list in #1, analyze how many sites are adult in nature that are now appearing on the front page of search results

3. Compile a list of sites that are clearly spam

4. Present items 1-3 to someone at Google so that at the very least, there is some concrete samples and examples for them to review.

I know this update has a lot of folks upset, but is there anything we could do as a group that may be useful in helping to solve the situation?

Best to All,
Jenn