Comments on: Are Google falling Into the Bear Trap?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:31:26 +0000

Just visited you from UKBF, have to say couldn’t agree more. Hadn’t actually noticed this until this post (however I don’t often search for events or people) but my goodness is it is annoying as hell! I think they could seriously cost themselves market share here, Google became popular for it’s ability to deliver relevant quality results (well, did it better than others, even if it was prone to abuse) to users quickly. I just did a quick count on the Tiger Woods search today, the first real result is tigerwoods . com – it appears after News Results and Latest Updates now. There are 10-11 links you could click on (5 in the news results, many in the visible updates bit, more if you scroll) before you actually get to the first decent result. Terrible, really hope this doesn’t expand to more generic searches.

By: PHP Hosting

PHP Hosting — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:51:12 +0000

Thats an interesting write up. It shows a different approach of looking at Google. Probably,with the involvement of Google being able to index Facebook and Twitter content,it would be more messier. We can only hope to have a better search capability.

By: Armando

Armando — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:52:44 +0000

I noticed the Twitter results but are gone now? Was just an experiment or it depends on the words you search for?

By: Old Welsh Guy

Old Welsh Guy — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:34:26 +0000

They are showing the crap twitter stuff for searches like ‘new year eve’ now http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GPTB_en-GBGB290GB290&q=new+years+eve&meta=&aq=f&oq=

They seem to be expanding this, and unless they improve the filters, we are going to see meaningless drivel on the first page of most searches.

By: Gareth Morgan

Gareth Morgan — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:01:07 +0000

I agree and hope it’s an experiment that will be pretty short-lived. Though, with Google giving Twitter an estimated $15m recently, for the right and ability to index its content, I’m sure they have long term plans for Twitter results.

By: Old Welsh Guy

Old Welsh Guy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:45:42 +0000

Hi Andy,

For me, someone who has been around Google from the start, it is such a shame to see them go down this route. Time will tell which way they take this, but personally I feel it is a bridge too far.

By: Andy Brough

Andy Brough — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:11:44 +0000

Very interesting article and I think you’re absolutely on the money about this one. I love Google’s funtional simplicity but this is just plain C.R.A.P.