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1. To see spammers and evil (and I mean evil) SEOs kicked out of the index. Forever.
2. Froogle non-beta launched within the first few months of 2003 with full support for foreign currencies.
What are your wishes/hopes?
Froogle will be used only by people who are actively shopping for products. So yes, an information site might lose the person who wants to buy a widget right now. But it will still get the person who's researching widgets or who's reading about a related topic and is prompted to inquire about widgets via an affiliate link.
Froggle if you are searching specifically to shop, Google is you are "just looking".
This is exactly my concern. A HUGE number of informational sites will lose an ENOURMOUS (as in "hard to imagine") pile of money, systematically and on a global scale. In terms of web policy, this is a fundamental act that gives an extreme advantage to governmental sites (which have their own funding) and the big companies. If that's what Google wants, so it shall be. Just wanted to make sure that Google knows what they are doing.
Well, since that's not at all what I said...
But i also misunderstood what you were saying. I was talking about the .5% threshold.
But please explain how what you are suggesting is possible with Ad Words? Take away the minimum, and I'll bid .05%, and still be the only ad to hit the .5% minimum.
There must be a minimum for the model. Asking Google to just slit their wrists so everybody pays .05 makes no sense. Is the minimum too high for some words? I assume so. Mine is incredibly cheap. I would hope they are gathering data so a more scientific minimum level is set for all words... but a minimun has to be a given.
It also depends on affordability. To me in a developing country 5c a click is already expensive so Im not going to bid on every 5c term. To Europeans and North Americans it might be penny change.
I think google does do some checking of relevance of ads do they not? - to guard against the practice you talk about - heh even at 50c some will still spam in that way, - as i said its all about budget.
If I have correctly understood your main concern, therefore im still not convinced that higher min costs per keyword will solve it, and that it makes it any easier for those without deep pockets. But agreed it is a problem that could be solved in other ways, as i suggested beforehand.
Well said, chiyo: resetting minimum CPCs for inflated keywords could be Google's Christmas present to their AdWords Select advertisers. (GoogleGuy, please do pass this one on to the AdWords Team!)
PLEASE DON'T. If anything the minimum should be raised. AdWords Select is a great Google tool because it rewards CONTENT, not deep pockets throwing money around. [...] The higher the minimum click rate, the less the deep pockets matter.
Steveb, I think you have confused minimum cost per click (CPC) with minimum click-through rate (CTR) here.
Make an advanced Google page, with lots of cool statistical features.
Great idea! I'd love to see this type of information available, would be very interesting.
Google, don't change your content model, just keep getting better. :)
Keep using ODP. It contains a great deal of resources using the open source model. How many webmasters have been able to set up directories through using their free information?
When I look at what Google offers, I have to look at it through a user's eyes. They are providing services that "make sense" to the user. Of course there is always something to improve, but they are succeeding in providing for the search user.
Keep providing for the "little guy". Keeping submissions free helps small business with little or no budget have a fair shake when it comes to ranking.
Thanks to GoogleGuy and Brett for opening communication between SEO's and Google. One step at a time may take awhile - but it is still another step forward.
Absolutely put in some extra effort in your advanced search features.
Also, make the toolbar more user customisable. Take a look at what Alexa's toolbar offers for example: popularity ranking, and "People who visit this page also visit", etc. these type of extra features would make toolbar usage higher.
1) More commercial ads
2) More commercial site favouritism
3) More spam
4) More useless serps ie look at No. 8 under MP3 search and see a site under construction....Hmmmm wonder how that one got there, look at the mother site and PR!
5) While we are at it have you seen the serps for christmas? Anybody would think it is about giving gifts and decorations, not that Im religious. Just thinking about relevancy here (I always thought christmas was a christian celebration) and the celebration of christ, doesn't seem to be much of this here! Seems commercialism rules
6) More banning of relevant sites?
etc etc etc
Oh well
retailers selling gifts are better at SEO than churches doing SEO to save souls :)
OR
Google is a barometer of popular culture...
A couple of advertisers here at WebmasterWorld have been "banned" from advertising at AdWords, presumably because of credit card problems. When asked, they get a rather cryptic message from Customer Service -
Due to difficulties with previous accounts you created in our program, we are unable to allow you to advertise on Google.
Assumption: Google is referring to credit card "difficulties".
The reason for such difficulties is AdWords' unique billing model - credit card is billed AFTER the delivery of service (traffic) unlike all such PPC companies that bill your card BEFORE the delivery of traffic.
If credit card billing/fraud is really a problem, why not change it to more conventional "deposit the dollars first" model adopted by other pay per click search engines?
Please let us search for Fresh newly indexed content!
(and I mean new pages, or pages of which the text content is 70% new).
What is the use of having the most advanced Freshbot and Fresh indexing, when you cannot search for it? ;)
Till now I go to FAST for that.
It would also be useful if Google partnered up with software companies to embed a similar function in CMS software or site management applications like GoLive & Dreamweaver.
So much of Web development is focused on the atom of the single server or site and on the creation of completely new sites, but not so much the Web as a whole and maintaining existing sites. This information can be got--the best I know of is AlltheWeb-- but doing so is a tedious, unnecessarily time-consuming process for even a modestly sized site. Thus most don't bother, which results in a lower quality (rotted) Web and reduced PR to sites that undergo changes.
Maybe someone already provides such a service though, and I just haven't heard about it yet?
I'd like safe search to jump in automatically on misspellings.
I'd like to be able to click the highlighted keywords on the cache page to jump to the first occurance of the word.
NFFC, I think you can do that with the toolbar.
