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| Thread ID: 121254 | 2011-10-18 06:49:00 | Whose Google? | John Calvert (16516) | PC World Chat |
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| 1238236 | 2011-10-18 06:49:00 | I came across an interesting video the other day. Very thought provoking. Eli Pariser talks about Filter Bubbles (www.ted.com) (9 minutes; ~ 21mb to download) - If you haven't got the bandwidth/allocation to view it, basically it was a talk about how google search results (and many other online resources) are tailored to the person making the request, but invisibly so you never know what you've been steered away from. Google second-guesses what they think you'll want to see based on various factors they determine about you. I was already irritated by being ghettoised into a ".nz" google (which I avoid by using a bookmark with the /ncr suffix for no localisation), but I didn't realize how much more there was to it. |
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| 1238237 | 2011-10-18 07:10:00 | Wow, that's extremely interesting. The extent of this phenomena never occurred to me. | george12 (7) | ||
| 1238238 | 2011-10-18 08:48:00 | Imagine the horror of having internet choices made by whatever it is that makes content choices for Television. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1238239 | 2011-10-18 10:11:00 | Generally based on personal search, particularly if you are logged in (or sometimes if you are not), will produce search results what Google believes suits you for local searches. One I follow is Danny Sullivan (searchengineland.com), who studies Google search and queries their results with Google staff. Can be challenging for web publishers/bloggers/e commerce sites, etc to get results displayed on different sub domains in different regions, as sometimes have to know local language terms to suit those local queries or intent. Then if Google rolls out major changes such as the recent Panda update (searchengineland.com), that evolved over months to go global, meaning different search results per region based on different update versions as they come out. Many searchers don't know, unless if it's in their interest to follow Google search patterns. Can become frustrating for searchers and publishers alike. Apparently branding and perceived authority sites are getting more of a push to page 1 of search results. Many content farms, thin content sites, ad heavy sites, spam domains (searchengineland.com) were recently buried or removed from their index. |
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| 1238240 | 2011-10-18 12:27:00 | I had no idea Google actually did that, and now that I know, I really do not like it. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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