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does anybody know anything on whether or not this acquisition could be already affecting search results on Google? Part of what is happening now? Seems awfully early to go through a major change in how the index is compiled and rendered right when you purchase new technology which may affect it substantially again in the near future doesn't make much sense either...
thought we would ask and see if anybody had any information on it.
At some days when i had cookies enabled, i realized some coincidences with google search results. It happened about three or four times within the last couple weeks.
Let's take a example to describe the situation:
- one minute i searched for infos about various widget breeds.
- a hour later i searched for infos about opening a modular window using javascript.
This example should explain how unrelated both searches were (again: just a example - damn, i don't remember the real queries).
Now, what made me wonder was the fact that the second search returned results that were also included within the results of the first query. Allthough it seemed that both searches were totally different, the results were acceptable - "by coincidence" a page about widget breeds also had some info about javascript modular windows. However, i wouldn't have expected it to be listed within the top 100 results ... coincidence or as/ai based on queries that were safed in google's cookie?
No, i don't tend to be paranoid. And i wouldn't have a problem if google would use such tactics to satisfy the user. I would even appreciate such technology as long as i can find what i "really" searched for (i did in my examples!).
However, my observations are totally independent from any update of everflux phenomenon and are not (yet) worth to further investigate, imho. My first observation even could have been two or three month ago - i don't remember exactly 'cause it wasn't sooo obvious or dramatic to me. ;)
yes, it's hard to know when Google starting working with the rocket scientests (just a phrase of speech) at Applied. They may have been in technical discussions with Applied and planning implementation at Google awhile before actually closing the purchase of the company. So there is a chance that by the time came, Google was prepared to start testing Applied technology in Google search quieries.
It just wouldn't make much sense to re-configure everything, and roll it out, if they new that a significant (?) technology enhancement would than be coming within a moderate time after, which would require another effort like this one seems to be.
They might already be incorporating some of the Applied query technology or not. I guess only G (GG?) would know the answer to that for sure.
