Update Saga. Part 5

[Brett_Tabke]

What say you?

Over and done with?

All done all through?

[subway]

I think Google are a hip and trendy company

G *were* a hip and trendy company, when they were a small start up with an honest mission. Now they're Google Inc working for shareholders that are demanding returns on their investment, especially over the xmas shopping season. With all due respect Dayo, you may as well bang your head against a brick wall, your problem is seriously way down their priority list! SERP tweaks these days are designed to increase Adwords revenue not please WW members :-(

[Ankhenaton]

It's all going a bit like TV, more about filling time and less and less content.

Hey have you not seen the hostile takeover bid from UK TV to takeover G. ;)

[colin_h]

[ Hey have you not seen the hostile takeover bid from UK TV to takeover G. ;) ]

If we're talking relevance ... There will probably be a take over bid by mindcap ;-)))

[Dayo_UK]

>>>>Your problem is seriously way down their priority list! SERP tweaks these days are designed to increase Adwords revenue not please WW members.

I would not believe a company would be that short sighted - more and more sites are going missing - Google need to fix it for there own good. (IMO)

And it is not my problem - it is Googles ;)

[lee_sufc]

I have just noticed another thing strange on google.co.uk. if you ping it, it shows 216.239.59.104. when i put that DC in my address bar and search using a main keyword, I am #4, if i search normally, using google.co.uk, I am not even in the first 10 pages!?!?

[RussellC]

Example site I run:

Same 2 word (very competitive) search term.

#16 out of 74,200,000 on Yahoo!
#22 out of 20,773,402 on MSN
After Jagger = 'No Where to be found' out of 104,000,000 on Google.

Something is wrong with Google. Period.

Either that or I did something I don't know about.

[colin_h]

There's only one company that really puts the fear of God into Google, and it's fast becoming the only way for the common man to sell online ... EBAY ;-))))

If Google take their eye further off the ball, Ebay will steal christmas from under them. All it would take is for Ebay to list a safe service section, where local services can list for pennies. I know that they try this already, but why not make it official?

Go Dayo, Go Dayo, Go Dayo ... I haven't whined like this since 1967 :-0

[johnhh]

Dayo_UK
Good examples - however I don't think anyone is listening over in Google land.

I always find that when companies go quiet it means 1.don't want to admit it or 2. leave it alone and Dayo_UK will go away.

My own feeling is that the non-www/www problem is so deep rooted that it may never be solved - same as the supplementals.

and as it is "a dark and dreary afternoon" colin_h is right "what the heck is the innocent web publisher" to do as I needed my accountant telephone number and gave up searching for it - yes he has a small web site..

[Ankhenaton]

I would not believe a company would be that short sighted

Shareholders and Accountants ARE that short sighted. As we are when our traffic goes down. The best is now I think to let G be G and look what one can do elsewhere. Bill has set his eyes on G, so having a long hard look at msn and improving ranks there is possibly a better time investment than having shortsighted plans ourself in running after G's oddities.

[j_do]

If this is the update, it's a joke. Results were good/acceptable somewhere over the weekend, the tweaking afterwards has done no good at all imho. We're being found for completely offtopic keyword combinations, whereas we're down the drain for ontopic phrases. Mostly from places 6-12 to somewhere mid 30. Results on the first page seem almost to be randomly picked, more than 50% of them being completely off topic. Users will get tired of searching with Google in the long term if these results stay.