Excellent post. Keep it up!…

A study by the University of Southern California’s Center for the Digital Future reports search engine users shows that people don’t believe everything that appears in the top 10 results.
The survey found that only 51% of people trust informati…

“Plus Google doesn’t “shut people off” without warning. The adwords system sends automated warnings with clear descriptions as to what is wrong, no one needs to do it manually. ”

I’ve been using Adwords for years. They have never sent me an automated warning when they disabled my keywords. The traffic simply disappeared. I would then go their site to discover time and time again that they have shut off good performing keywords unless I either improved the quality of the ads, or paid them more money. The ads were already optimized and getting click-thru rates of 2% or better and the traffic from these ads was making Google more than a thousand dollars a month. They shut them off regardless. That’s pretty strange because it didn’t seem to benefit anyone, least of all them.

“And for this survey, it is nothing but a swiss cheese until someone declares the questions asked, the sample used and the methodology. If you’ll try to denigrate someone at least do it seriously so that people actually take your words into account.”

I’m only sharing my personal experience, and I’m not the only one who has been through this. Why do you accuse me of being dishonest?

It is in our DNA to idolise the giants. I am no one to counter that tendency.

Similarly Lee made a point about choice. Choice is what the Net is known for. Imagine going from a handful of newspapers to a thousand news sources. I am not going to counter Lee either.

My only objection is that irrespective of what Google is all about, we need to separate the crawling from the interfacing. The process of ranking has to be much more transparent because it all boils down to opportunity cost.

If the stuff I was looking for is lying in the backend but the default interface couldn’t get it to me, I would want some other interface, pronto.

My point is this: read several reports covering the same subject, try to be objective and wonder. is there an agenda being pushed here instead of the truth.

I say: truth will open one’s eyes, the key is locating conflicting sources covering the same item then reaching a conclusion based upon the information presented, follow up the earlier reports and soon after the “rush” to “scoop” by the presenters is over, the facts usually surface.

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The best search engines I have ever seen are… people, not engines. The engines are cold and stupid, I am still waiting for A.I.

Go Social: forum, blogs, twitter, Facebook, MySpace everything is good. Do not be lazy. Ask Ask and Ask.

I want to believe in… a SERP?!?? What does it mean? Automatic true???

Imagine that your ads are appearing in the first SERP. Ok you are famous but are you the best?

Assuming the claim is correct and not influenced by the question, I would ask,

WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE?????

How sick and closed minded do you have to be to believe such a hoax ?
I have always loved google exactly because of the 99.9% of the relevance of search results and as long as results are as accurate as they are now, I’ll always use and recommend Google.

Sites like Arkayne are trying to change things but its slow going in a net full of hype.

Google, on the other hand, is a notable standout … having built a significant worldwide brand and customer base over the last decade, as well as a significant presence in the financial markets. Looking ahead, Google is preparing a wide range of initiatives that would have seemed preposterous a few years ago. No other firm is as well positioned for continuing advancement is search, not to mention their evolving “unstated” intention break the worldwide stranglehold of MSN with cloud computing.

Bottom line … trust is much like beauty, its found only in the eye of the beholder. Cheers all!

“They arbitrarily raise prices and shut people off without warning, and then they tell you that you like it. ” Google doesn’t even set a price for showing your ads, adwords is auction based, remember? You set your own price and a major determinant is what other people bid for that spot that you would like to occupy as well.

Plus Google doesn’t “shut people off” without warning. The adwords system sends automated warnings with clear descriptions as to what is wrong, no one needs to do it manually.

And for this survey, it is nothing but a swiss cheese until someone declares the questions asked, the sample used and the methodology. If you’ll try to denigrate someone at least do it seriously so that people actually take your words into account.