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Or maybe they have seperate algo's for each majorly spammed out industry? (porn, gambling, viagra, travel etc.)
Is there any evidence to support the fact that Google uses the same algo for every type of search out there?
Thanks for any input anyone may have :)
Same for porn, casinos and the others you mentioned. A search on some sexual deviancy would be hard to distinguish from a search for porn.
That said, they do have filters as we've all seen (duplicate content) and google.com/linux will also yield Linux related results vs the general search.
Could they try to use similar filters for certain searches? Certainly. IMHO it would be too hard to determine when to apply or when not the apply. In the /linux example, it's obviously easy for them to know what type of results you are after.
Not really. They have a database of words being bid on, click prices, click throughs, competitiveness, etc. I'm not saying they are doing this, I'm just posing the question -- how do we know for sure it's the same algo applied everywhere? It would be very easy for google to tweak it for certain groupings of sites, which would make our jobs a lot harder when trying to identify trends or changes in the algo.
They do indeed have access to the data you mention.
Separating the search term from the user's intent would be the real issue. Unless there's a Google employee asking me what I want to find when I perform a search, they have no way of knowing. An educated guess (based on the data you mention), perhaps.
Is that guess enough to use a different algo for that search?
One could imagine that Google takes last months 1 million most popular search queries and pre-processes (as is done with Pagerank) the above mentioned refinement results for ready "real-time" delivery?
