Comments on: Adolescent Search Engines: They are growing up so fast! http://hamletbatista.com/2007/08/15/adolescent-search-engines-they-are-growing-up-so-fast/ Advanced Search Engine Marketing Tips to Succeed Online Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:25:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Hamlet Batista http://hamletbatista.com/2007/08/15/adolescent-search-engines-they-are-growing-up-so-fast/#comment-960 Hamlet Batista Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:52:33 +0000 http://hamletbatista.com/2007/08/15/adolescent-search-engines-they-are-growing-up-so-fast/#comment-960 Mutiny - You have really good points there. I agree with you. For every action on Google's end there will be a reaction on our end. That is what makes our work so exciting. Isn't it? Mutiny - You have really good points there. I agree with you. For every action on Google’s end there will be a reaction on our end. That is what makes our work so exciting. Isn’t it?

]]> By: Mutiny Design http://hamletbatista.com/2007/08/15/adolescent-search-engines-they-are-growing-up-so-fast/#comment-949 Mutiny Design Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:48:32 +0000 http://hamletbatista.com/2007/08/15/adolescent-search-engines-they-are-growing-up-so-fast/#comment-949 As discused on your 'previous post', I think Google's best card to play would be to create personalised search results. There could be some issues with this though, since some queries are pre-prepared it would cause more strain on their servers. Also, the majority of people who use search engines don't have much or any footprint (my paresnts for example) for Google to track because they don't use Google Analytics or any other pies Google has its mits in. Possibly the biggest problems would be if the money, time and effort put into optimising your site would not give a good ROI as the search results are so personalised. If that was the case a lot of people may end up switchign to Yahoo. As mentioned in your previous post, I believed that the ammount of traffic a site was getting could be something Google could use as a quality signal, but on reflection this is actually harder to quality check than links. If traffic was a major factor it would be very easy to have your site crawled by different IPs. Whereas now we have Text-Link-Ads and link exchange, this would lead to buying Crawl-My-Site and traffic exchange networks. As discused on your ‘previous post’, I think Google’s best card to play would be to create personalised search results. There could be some issues with this though, since some queries are pre-prepared it would cause more strain on their servers. Also, the majority of people who use search engines don’t have much or any footprint (my paresnts for example) for Google to track because they don’t use Google Analytics or any other pies Google has its mits in.

Possibly the biggest problems would be if the money, time and effort put into optimising your site would not give a good ROI as the search results are so personalised. If that was the case a lot of people may end up switchign to Yahoo.

As mentioned in your previous post, I believed that the ammount of traffic a site was getting could be something Google could use as a quality signal, but on reflection this is actually harder to quality check than links. If traffic was a major factor it would be very easy to have your site crawled by different IPs. Whereas now we have Text-Link-Ads and link exchange, this would lead to buying Crawl-My-Site and traffic exchange networks.

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