Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
Today we're helping people get better search results by extending Personalized Search to signed-out users worldwide
That's a staggering statement meaning that every computer accessing Google is now being personalized, signed in or not, so any desktop, laptop or kiosk will start tracking everything everyone does and you won't be able to access the same search results from any two machines.
The possible impact to all is staggering.
Of course the USA , UK and other areas might just bow to corporate lawyer pressure and forget their citizens rights ..
Under the new concept and only using G search I will never even realize that specialist site exists.
Are you suggesting that Google personalized search will show only sites that you've visited, as opposed to weighting results to favor sites that you have a history of preferring in searches on topics that bring up those sites' pages?
After reading all of your comments...I'm still a bit confused as to why everyone is so mad?
I'm still seeing the same amount of traffic to my site as it was prior to this change going into effect.
Can someone break this down so that slow people like me can comprehend?
thanks
Not only, but I suspect that those sites the user has shown a preference for will be shown higher in the results, and if you combine that with G's own properties News, Images, Adwords, Maps, Youtube the user may not even see that Jewell is available unless the user is determined to dig deeper.
Don't think any of us know how this will be implemented so we will see,
My own concern is twofold
New sites unless they have massive budgets will never be found
Old sites rely to a degree on new visitors in addition to those visitors who trust that old site , but it is possible under this scenario old sites without large budgets to continue advertising and be seen alongside the preferred sites of that visitor will have less opportunity to be found
Only my own thoughts and may be very very wrong but this could work very much against the small to medium webmaster who has created a specialist niche site because if this is the first time the visitor is investigating that niche his search history could well take precedence.
But hey - at least Google ads will be ever changing and more appealing to be clicked on! :)
It's good we have an alternative - Bing it on!
Hopefully Microsoft is smart enough to bring AS MUCH RESOURCES to improve Bing as possible because NOW is the best time for them to do it.
[edited by: fargo1999 at 6:39 pm (utc) on Dec. 5, 2009]
If only they could slow down a bit 18 months more and I'll have paid off my mortgage.
Cheers
Sid
Don't think any of us know how this will be implemented so we will see
My thoughts exactly. However, I don't think Google is likely to be satisfied with results that freeze out "the small to medium webmaster who has created a specialist niche site." Personalized search may incorporate a weighting factor based on past user search behavior, but I think that's all it will do. It's likely to be an incremental enhancement, not a total overhaul. After all, Google Search is Google's core product, and why would Google risk killing its cash cow?
Also, it doesn't really matter what you want, it's what the consumer wants. If the consumer is happy to have his results tailored to his/her needs, then why would Google remove it? Google's going to do what's best for the consumer, not what's best for the sites dominating the ranks.
