Google Teams up with the Big Players

[badger_uk]

Does this explain why so many Amazon, Bizrate, Dealtime, eBay and Epinion results are now so high in google?
Taken from Froogle search results.
Try your search on other sites: Amazon - AOL - eBay - MSN - Yahoo - BizRate - DealTime - Epinions - mySimon.

Looks like us small players are about to become history.

[Oaf357]

This makes some sense from an IPO perspective. But not very much sense. Giving preferencial treatment to big business didn't get Google to where it's at now.

My theory (and take that for what it's worth) is that Florida is part of a two (or more) part update scheme to help Google position itself better for buyer's of stock. The second part brings the rest of small business back but not to where they were before, back where they should be among big business.

Let's keep in mind that this is merely a theory and that my site wasn't even touched by the Florida update.

[Miop]

Small businesses in real life are distributed in 'secondary' trading areas. Well I certainly got that - from position 4 to 779. It's not even got better, it's got worse over the past month. Maybe that's what Google calls a secondary trading position.
Google just lost another adwords customer, since I can't afford to pay them.

[mikeD]

I get the feeling Google is going the way of the supermarket. Before long there will be 3-4 big chains and a much more dull and boring landscape.

I run quite a few commercial sites but also 4-5 pure non-commerical information sites. Without the revenue from the commerical sites all the information sites will have to taken down due to bandwidth costs etc.

[john316]

Is google still a search engine?

Compare search engine [gigablast.com] shopping hybrid [google.com].

[Miop]

It's not even much cop as a shopping hybrid...

[Miop]

Hmm...is there anywhere on the net which gives up-to-date traffic for SE's? Does anyone know if G has lost any traffic?

[netguy]

Alexa (for what its worth) is showing Google up for November/December:

[alexa.com...]

Probably a result of users clicking past all the mega-stores (or webmasters clicking page after page looking for their websites).
;)

[skipfactor]

>>Google up for November/December

I'd bet 'Length of Visit' per user is up too. Isn't that bad for an SE? Depends on the portal..uh..SE I'd guess.

[Spica]

>>>Alexa (for what its worth) is showing Google up for November/December<<<

SEOs desperately trying to find their all-white-hat sites in the SERPs?