I use Google the most because of the ability to search for images, newsgroups, along with webpages, and the ability to search cached webpages with the search words highlighted.

However, when it comes to general search capability, I find Google doesn’t do a good job. I have to weed through too many irrelevent sites that do not contain the words or phrases I’m looking for. There needs to be a way to have Google find only the sites that contain the words or phrases entered.

I would change it to be more like Bing. Find it has more relevant searches for what I input.

I agree that google is getting less and less relevant. im tired of searches for just about anything resulting in hundreds of listings for social network sites. im usually looking for relevant websites, not trying to find “friends”

I like the new web options that allowed results to be displayed in the last hour, or last day or last week, or last year.

But hey, what about offering the last month? The gap between last week and last year is far too wide.

Hi, my name is Tonya. I am a Website Designer and a Social Media Marketing Specialist.
I LOVE this question! I would love to see Google add more than 1 type of search engine
results that would appear on the same page for every search engine inquiry.

For example, let’s say that I do a search on Google for “website design”.

Now, we get paid ads being displayed always at the top and natural search
engine results show up underneath the paid ads. I would like to see this
remain the same, but also add the following:

-An INDEX with all of the websites listed in alphabetical order
-Twitter results
-YouTube Video results
-Facebook results
-MySpace results
-Google Local Business Map results
-Blogger Results
-Miscellaneous Blog results

*This new Google Web Page Layout would look like this below:

Google could have a 8 column web page to where all of the paid
ads still show up on top all the way across the page from left to right
and then underneath the paid ads would be 4 columns and then
another 4 columns which will make a total of 8 columns of
Google Search Engine Results all appearing on the 1st page
of results.

-The 1st column would be for the INDEX that would list all of the websites that
contained the keyword “website design” and list those websites in alphabetical order

-The 2nd column would be for a list of Natural Search Engine Results
for the keywords “website design”

-The 3rd column to the right would be for Twitter results for the keywords “website design”

-The 4th column to the right would be for Facebook Results

-The 5th column would be for MySpace Results

-The 6th column would be for blog results

-The 7th column would be for Google Local Business Map Results

-The 8th column would be for YouTube Video Results, etc

*More columns can be added such as for ALL
of the SHARE SITES like Digg, Yahoo Buzz, etc.

The reason that I feel that this type of search engine result page would
be more beneficial is because it would give more websites the opportunity
to be seen on the 1st page of Google instead of being hidden under pages
and pages of search engine results. Plus, it would give Google users
more variety to click on.

Think about it? Sometimes people are in the mood to read a short Tweet and
other times people are in the mood to watch a short video about their search
engine result. So why not give users BOTH results to select from on the same page.

I would also like to see Google change their algorithm in order to display
websites that are more current and up-to-date as an important part
of their ranking factors because sometimes a website gets ranked high
because they have hundreds of web pages on their site, but what about the
1 or 2 year old website owner who has less pages, but newer content to share?

Newer websites tend to have newer content anyway because they are working hard
on adding new content to their site in order to get listed higher on search engines,
so why shouldn’t Google give those new website a little boost in their rankings for
their efforts in trying? If search engines do not give the little a guy/lady a try and
help him or her out some with their page rankings, then more and more websites
will fail and shut down which can become detrimental to the economy and to the
Internet community.

In my last college class in Information Technology/Visual Communication, my classmates
and I had to create a user manual for Virtual Organizations. In our user manual, we talked
about Facebook.com, MeetUp.com, and also about the University of Phoenix.
I learned a very valuable lesson in our class and that was to give users
a variety to select from.

For example, when you are reading a book or an eBook, do you like to
go straight to the INDEX, the TABLE OF CONTENTS, or to the GLOSSARY
to find what you are looking for?

Everyone is different and that is why it is best to offer all
3 aspects in a book or in an eBook in order to please everyone.

I feel that this same principle should be carried on in website design
as well as in how search engines display their information to their users.
I really LOVE this idea and I will be emailing a copy of my response here
to Google in hopes that they will implement this NEW way for their users
to retrieve information from Google search engines. Thank you for taking the
time to read my response and please feel free to share my comment with others.

Sincerely yours,
Tonya Becker-Haddadeen
in Stafford, VA, USA near Washington DC
John 3:16

*Please check out my website at
http://www.1-Dynamic-Design.com

*Also, please add me on Twitter at
http://www.Twitter.com/eBayHomeBizHelp

*And please add me on Facebook at
http://www.Facebook.com/TonyasDynamicDesigns

His idea is brilliant. I have never thought about it but since I emailed search results’ links so I would like to see that changes as well.

I agree, that Google should return to be a search engine, not a redirecting engine, as some ‘SEO’ people gets their stuff to the top, when it has no relevalnce to the topic being searched. And may not even contain content, yet that URL was returned in the top 10 listings of google???

What I would like is an extra row of radio buttons, below the region and all search buttons is
Content/Articles/ Information websites
Shopping websites

That would really help me, as when I want to buy online I can be pointed to a shopping cart, to search for information not related to shopping then I would like to see content.

I do not mind banner ads and buy now links, etc . but not be pointed to a shopping only cart URL , only because it returned in the top 10 results with no info, and then the product does not even exist in their inventory or even being available !

Please take out all link farms, directories of directories, and lists of lists that come up when you type in a search.

Just have the algorithm post relevant terms addressing the search, not just the first link that comes up with the most links in it or the most iterations of just the search term itself.

It is so annoying to type in say “shakesphere” and get the first two pages of search be just directories of “English Literature” or London clubs. It should be items actually with the word Shakesphere as used in “THE AUTHOR” and not just be count of websites that have Shakesphere somewhere on the page.