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Thanks everybody. If you give us a heads-up on what you want to hear about, that makes it that much less likely that anyone in the audience will fall asleep. :)
And why does the new layout only show on one out of the 4 computers in my office? It's definitely not a cookie or IP thing. So it must be toolbar related?
[edited by: WebGuerrilla at 8:35 pm (utc) on Feb. 22, 2004]
Is Google a friend of SEO or against SEO?
What are the best SEO practices?
Will Google favour a White Hat SEO?
It seems your company rushed out the beta version over a year ago and we still do not see quality/relevant results. Did Google give up on Froogle?
Thanks GG
Recent updates, since Florida, have had significantly different affects on different markets. It looks very much like part of the new algo needs feedback in order to tweak it to perfection. My question is what plans do Google have to implement a formal reporting process for folks who pot bugs in the Algo. It would be nice to at least have some guidelines on how we can provide you with meaningful feedback.
Will you be there?
Best wishes
Sid
A google employee apparently made a statement encouraging webmasters to make largish, comprehensive sites instead of creating separate mini-domains for every niche keyword. Currently Google rewards the niche domain makers, particularly by ranking multiple subdomains separately but not doing so with site.com/directory/. At the same time webmasters worry about crosslinking... both people with related mini-domains and those with just two larger domains. Is Google moving toward a "page" view of the Internet or a "domain" view, or will it continue to send mixed messages by straddling the line?
How long did the 12 step program to lick the anchor text addication take?
Here's another: G really doesn't consider the following a-z to be an issue so don't bother reporting it to us as spam or a search quality issue.
That's a good one!
I think the three parties: Google - webmasters - users each have their own definition of spam. The are not necessarily always the same.
When is a site OK? What is allowed when a site should be on top but isn't because it's in Flash, or otherwise unreadable for Googlebot?
In other words: when (if so) does Google find a site OK, even if it's using otherwise not accepted SEO methods?
Google is creating a lot of ill-will. What will Google do if they loose many or most of their daily users to Yahoo and MSN search? Will they go back to normalized search results or continue into this silliness right into Bankruptcy?
(I would presume this post will be quickly removed as my previous post was by the thread censor since I am not praising Google as required.)
Mc
Assuming Google's algo currently uses LSI, does the algo go about finding symantics for a search phrase as a whole or word by word?
You can find a detailed answer to this in the CIRCA semantics white paper. If you don't know how to find it sticky me.
Best wishes
Sid
When will AdSense checks be sent out when the reprts say they are sent out, and not three weeks after it says there sent.
When will AdSense let us make public our stats. :)
When will you give my sites a PR 10. :)
Can google explain why many pages in many websites are out of the index DB? This is the most seriouse punishment as such pages has no chances to participate SERP complete. Pls explain how to avoid to be out of index DB (No cache; URL as title if allinurl: www.xyz.com)
Major problem needs to be addressed. 75% of my pages
show url only - No cache, No description.
Is there a threshold beyond which the revenue per click drops?
EG - Up to perhaps $3,000pm, publishers get 20% of the ad spend, after $3,000, they get 10% (in order to spread the revenue around)
Thx for your time GG :)
J
I think there's a theme developing, from two directions: the e-commerce shops's collective outrage at being tossed out of their long-held "real estate" in Google rankings; and the public concern that Google defines too much of the search landscape [in effect, "controlling" access to the web].
On a purely objective legal level, neither argument holds water. Google did not sell, promise, or obligate itself to any of those e-commerce shops - they built house on swamp land, and surprise, they sank.
Also, Google has no hold on the web search market - just mind share. You *might* have developed sort of anti-trust argument concerning their partnership with Yahoo, but now that's history.
Google has great technology - that's a given. But Google's market share, revenue potential, and IPO-ability are founded, not on tech, but on the collective goodwill they have nurtured. They are a decent company, putting out a good product, and people like them for it.
That good will is conditional. If the industry starts looking at Google with distrust, that distrust will eventually manifest itself at the consumer level. When people start saying, "Google keeps changing stuff - were they sending me the wrong sites yesterday? Cuz they're showing me different ones today!", somebody will remember that, and retell it to someone else. Whether there's a factual basis for that perception, or anything like it, is not the point.
Google's clean image will be impacted.
If I can bring my laptop to California and show Sergey and Larry
that I can dynimically assign my router an IP address every 10-15 seconds
which in turn within those 10-15 seconds clicks on as many adword campaigns
as possible to only be re-assigned another IP address to repeat the process,
would they go public if their sharefolders new their main source of revenu
is unstable at best.
- Some insight on how the company plans on growing its spam control team. Is Google happy with the progress to date based on volume of reports vs. number of staff handling them? How important is this right now? Google certainly does look like heaven compared to other results right now. (Wink wink.. or should I say, Ink Ink?)
Integration of Adwords data with external databases.
What data import / export options will be available in the future.
M i n n a p p l e
We'll post an update from Orlando letting everyone know what made it into Google's presentation.
