Thanks for this post, your post about traffic and serp is good.

Well its quite true that Behaviour search is on the rise. I know that Google would come up with more refined search to flush out the spammers.

It would be much tougher for SEO’s as I truely accept Ranking is dead as Traffic – I mean relevant traffic and not bulk traffic, must be given importance.

Behaviour search would be interesting but like the IP based search would make much tougher and challenging for SEO’s

2009-2010 would be great to see the changes being reflected.

Google will basse it’s results on which sites are in Canada, and depnding onthe browers, will make the results, or show stricly Canadian, or maybe US.

I can load three browsers and get three different SERPs.  Explain that to a client, I see top page results, they see second page.  I no longer just look at serps, I look at traffic and conversion.  We buy traffic, produce SEO and then work witht he client to improve responses.  All three number have to work together, because we can no longer justify the results, when our clients can see that they are different for visitors, they can’t trust what’s on their own screen or what we provide them, they realize it’s different on each computer.

But the upsaide is, it’s means our cleints get more tied to us, more reliant as we understand more about what they do and how to get them results.

I am so glad to hear that someone out there is looking out for the "searcher". The person who is actually looking for results that pertain to their request for information.

I am a small fish in a very big pond. I think this will actually help small businesses like mine get a change to be seen.

Googles been pushing for webmasters to focus on content for quite a while.  Any long term SEO had better keep that in mind. Eventually Google will reach it’s goal of weeding out other forms of SEO

The personalized search poses a lot of search problems though. Just because I normally am looking for a particular product when I search for a term does not mean that is always the case.

Java is a good example, Just because someone normally looks for java code samples doesn’t mean he has not interest in Coffee.

Bruce has popped the bubble over us all again…not really like many of  you who have stated in their comments Google has been dabbling with this for quite some time and they are a public company thats traded globally so its highly unlikely they will do anything outlandish.  Content and relevancy are going to be king so those of us who have been practicing this forever shall be rewarded and those of us who havent not been better get with the program. I do however wonder how this is going to play up 2 aspects of off page marketing.

1. Social Media Advertising- What is going to happen with it and how much will it be affected?

2. For the Internet Marketers with big pockets how is this going to drive the cost of PPC /Pay for Performance based ads.  Will we see a large influx and rush to those just for sites to direct/drive traffic to their pages…?

 just my two cents

Okay perhaps thats a little strong, but I am not a fan of behavoiral search resutls.

I am based in Australia and when I search google.com I expect results from outside of australia. If I wanted Australian based results I’d click the "pages from australia" button.

Then theres the other issue, so today I decide I want information about datsun 180b’s for a friend. The next time I search for used vehicles I don’t want results for datsun 180b’s.

Sorry but I am not a fan of the proposed changes 

So if you want to do business in other cities and states you need to have your website hosted locally in that state?  I’m thinking based on what he said by results returned by tracking the location of the searcher in relation to the website itself?

We do business all over the country and it would suck to get blocked out of all the other possible markets?

Hummmm…..  hope what im thinking is wrong, maybe ive just worked too late today =).

I’ll keep reading the posts to see what happens.

thanks, will

Personalized Search Results is actually very entertaining.  I have to ask what that means to someone like me who is obsessed with my results and is constantly checking the seach engines to see where I am weak and how to improve my results.  This means that I am constantly searching within my industry, I have to wonder what effect that will have on my "Personalized Search Results"? 

I too would much rather see reality when I call up a search.

Currently I enjoy top search engine results and don’t think that will change with these new methods of search.  I am not too worried.

Interesting comments by Bruce Clay but what happens if a searcher deletes his cookies and many savvy searcher now understand security and privacy issues and will delete their cookies for this reason, then the return search results will not be according to the searchers trends, habits and history of search. How annoying it will be for a searcher who is a computer programmer that is looking for a java code and types in java but actually is looking for a coffee called java, so every time he types in a keyword that related to his life, work interest and prior search history it will return only results the Google thinks he wants to see? Google is starting to move from the simplicity that brought them their success to complexity that will drive searchers away if what Bruce Clay sais is true.
 

Furthermore if Google will start looking up IP addresses of searchers and revising results based on IP this be a violation of privacy and this might create some problems for Google in the future. I am not sure if many searchers would be happy if Google starts invading their own home and looking at their life through the search they do. This might create a shift is users going to other search engines that allow them to exercise their freedom of search without being watched.  This is like big brother in a virtual world guiding searchers without their awareness to look at results they might not even considered looking at. At the end of the day the entity that will gain the most out of this is Google. Don’t forget that Google is a business that its purpose is firstly to satisfy its share holders and make as much money as they can.
 

i`m a newbie to this website/ seo stuff so all this is very interesting to me.

i don`t really understand it too much but just a thought on the java example.if you usually search for "java" in relation to java programming but want to find out about java indonesia for a holiday,couldn`t you just type in "java indonesia" instead of just "java"?