Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?

http://www.seobook.com/excuse-me-where-did-googles-organic-search-results-go

by stakent • 17 years ago

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neovive• 17 years ago

There is clearly a Google-risk in many markets -- especially those dealing with content and aggregation. It's hard to compete with the massive scale that Google has at its fingertips. They can quickly enter many markets, outside of their core, if they choose to do so. Most of the time (but not always) they will become a major competitor. Think GMail, Voice, Mobile Maps, etc.

mattmanser2• 17 years ago

I wonder how long it will take them to get slapped by someone though? In the UK papers have to clearly identify adverts if presented in an editorial format. Why do google get away with presenting adverts as search results without clearly identifying them?

A greyed out 'sponsored link' in the right hand corner is just pathetic, I bet most users don't even understand what that means.

byrneseyeview• 17 years ago

That's how US papers identify advertisements, too. Fortune has a multi-page article on how effective corporate jets are (it actually has about as much data and case studies as a typical Fortune article), and that piece has a modest "Special advertising section" header.

However, organic and natural results are both the result of spending money and effort; the only difference is the that you can get high organic results without much money, if you have a lot of time.

dimas• 17 years ago

It might take a while before Google get negative wide spread reaction or loose of revenue just due their reputation build over the years and innovative drive. However, in competitive market and emerge of hungry start ups looking for new business it might come as an opportunity for others

nostrademons• 17 years ago

Do you remember what Web 1.0 was like before Google? Search engines would often mix sponsored links into their results with no indication at all that the link had paid for their placement. Google at least puts them in a separate section of the page, labeled.

biznerd• 17 years ago

For many terms as well they're featuring Youtube at the top . So not only are they getting users to ignore organic SEO results. They're driving traffic to their properties.

landyman• 17 years ago

That's the point though, right? They show results for Youtube, Google Maps, Google News, etc. so they can keep you on their websites to look at more ads. The more ads they show, the more money they get.

TFrancis• 17 years ago

Wow, AdBlock makes Google better. I didn't know this was going on.

Periodic2• 17 years ago

This has been a trend for me. I've even moved away from using AdBlock, but I still use NoScript, and it's still amazing.

It often surprises me how different some websites look on other people's computers. It makes me realize that advertising really does change the user experience, especially when they're the animated flash ads. A nice, relaxing read suddenly becomes flashy, distracting, and obnoxious.

messel• 17 years ago

That's gold for someone who wants to develop opt in/non intrusive ads. Thanks Periodic, I felt the same way but building ads that are "desirable" to the user experience is a challenge.

sireat• 17 years ago

That particular example was hilariously sad. Almost reminded me of late 90s.

Good news is, if Google gets too aggressive with their ads, Bing(or someone else) will be happy to take over.

Incidentally, I do not get the same polluted results Aaron got, when using simple search from Firefox. I just get Google Map thing, single side Adword on the side and the rest are organic results. Most likely reason is that I am too far from San Francisco right now...