I agree, it’s a great article

HI Folks,

As a SEO and Research analyst i can say that what google does is purely experimenting.

Lets make some things clear why i support Google’s ideas

1) If MYSPACE, Digg and other social and social network sites can use various methods like voteing, popularity then why not Google?

2) Basic idea for Google is that it will eliminate SEO Spammers which will make more challengable for them.

3) From my point of view google will have a Analysis of popularity for Keyword, Domains, Link and much more relevancy which it algo will get a pure idea.

Just take example of Google insight which gives an idea of search.

From SEO point now SEO guys should focous more on Behaviour Reserach , Web2.0 technologies and must move ahead with the time. IP targeting and making content more powerfull would be meaningfull – Yes the competition would be tough.

It’s great but I have to keep shutting it off when I’m trying to see where MY pages rank.

I also have to shut it off when I’m having trouble finding something – I need it to branch out and get away from my “normal” sites.

As long as it is optional, I’m fine with it.

Google likes to keep it simple. And the simple thing here as I see it is that Google wants the websites coming up in the rankings to have value for the user. The age old sentiment of valuably enriching the site for the human being more and less for the spiders has been translated by google into action.

So in effect users are now empowered with a choice. They are able to excercise their own sense of ranking leaving the machines out.

Only time will tell how much of an impact it will have on SEO and whether the focus from now on should be human beings and not the machines anymore.

Google seems to be saying. We told you. Now we mean it.

I don’t get it… isn’t that what “Favorites” are for? I’d much rather see them move some of their advanced search features to their main search page.

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People can make money with personalized search now.

http://www.Boomja.com enables anyone to create their own authoritative directories on any subject or topic for free – and generate perpetual ad revenues.

I think that the information coming in regarding SEO, optimization, etc, etc, becomes such an over blown brain dump !!

It’s like going over & over the same thing from a different perspective and angle, but you still end up basically at the same place. All this becomes a big distraction to businesses after a while.

I sense a feeling of being jerked around by who else?….Google !

Publicity 101 !! and nobody seems to do it better than Google;(

It is kind of a way to make it so that users can make “topic pages” out of the search page, rather than the current igoogle interface which is too complex for some users. It is clever, although it may have a dumbing the dumber effect on some users – it actaully makes the “search” page into the opposite, which many people won’t get – reminds me of the famous scene in the movie Spinal Tap regarding the amps that have knobs that go to 11. “But our amps go to eleven,” is all the band member can say when confronted with the fact that the amp is actually not any louder, the knob simply reads 11 instead of 10. In this way the phrase “Custom Search” is lame. “But my search is a custom search . . .”

It should be called something else like favorites or “my results.” I personally I have not used this feature and the creation of it has lead to me staying logged out of google – I prefer to search when I want to search. If there were two buttons – a real search and a fake search, I might use it some – maybe.

Just as Microsoft continues to create a new operating system every couple of years – just when users are very happy and used to their current version. So, Google and other companies are always creating the “next big thing.”

IMHO, this is nothing more than a money driven occurrence. If engineers don’t create new and more complex OS’s at Microsoft for e.g. there is no need for such large staffs and budgeting.

Consider Google’s endless changes, I see the same model at work. Let’s say for example, that everyone loves Google just the way it exists now. The need for existing staff and budget would allow for some trimming.

I think that change is good – but not all change or constant change, so much so that one can’t keep up with all of it.

It seems to be the need to produce “something” – good or bad – and selling it to the “suits” in the front office that drives this juggernaut of constant changes with all the bells and whistles, that aren’t needed or asked for. Job security!

Errr, have they not heard of bookmarking? General users won’t bother with this.

Predictable benefit to Google’s efforts to earn money by directing traffic to those that pay for traffic.

Ad Worders hate seeing organic results ahead of their paid clicks and weak efforts. Customer complains, “Why did I burn a hole in my wallet using a template website/adwords and I see some newcomer website ahead of me?”

Local results do help that specific customer. If left leaning sites, movie sites, restaurant sites, disco sites, lame sites pay for a weak pay per click ad solution when cutting costs and using a template/ weak coding solution… They get preference sometimes in certain circumstances.

Google can tell when a site deserves placement based upon relevance. That is why Google will rule in 2009!

It’s business as usual…

Do yourself a favor Hire a pro to work in-house, modify original content, build and write good original content, make site codesmart and do it organically!

The best search results come from the organic results in 90% of cases. People who cheapskate their web-budge tdo a site cheap get what they paid for in terms of results. It has always been that way and it will always be that way.

Its simple math.

Later

I love being able to block the content that I don’t want to see in my searches.

Google has done extensive research on the personal search and have decided it is what people want.
They are right! Most people would rather tune out what they don’t want to hear or see! It is not their fault! That is the way we have been programed!

I can’t believe there are more people wanting their own little “controlled” environment online! Don’t they see this just means they have less control in their lives? I like a little variety so will not be using it. Intelligent people looking for the best deal or answers will find another way to get them.
Google has a choice of who it wants to deal with. It looks to me like Googles new way to screw the marketer. The big Adsence boom is over and has totally messed up the internet with the crap keyword pages people put up trying to make their Adsense million. Paid inclusion of your ad in an end user controlled search (or basic bookmark page) will be their next claim to millions (or the back door in!)

I can’t wait to see what happens!

I laughed when I saw this. It’s like defining normal. There are no average users, per se, but a conglomerate of people who use the internet to address a myriad of needs.

But the reality comes down to this: It’s an electable feature. If you don’t like it, don’t use it.

Seriously, people . . . if I want to design a line of clothing that is only red, will always be red, but the styles will change . . . no one is forcing you to buy it!

Of course, my biggest laugh in reading these responses is that half the “average” people don’t know the difference between there, their and they’re. They interchange you’re and your, advice and advise, etc. And these are people who feel confident to comment on the brilliance or ingenuity of others?

For those of us who use the internet for more than one purpose, this is a wonderful thing. I don’t have to go to my bookmarks and look for it, I can just type it in and Google (I’m always signed in!) will find it for me. Saves me time and for me, time is $90/hr.