Comments on: Is Google Moving In The Wrong Direction?

By: danielson

danielson — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:29:21 +0000

google tends to make things super complicated. twitter is not needed in search results

By: Helen Silverwood

Helen Silverwood — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:26:34 +0000

I don’t know really, there could be advantages to the twitter feed if people are looking for up to date info, and it’s quite sensible google including twitter rather than trying to lead people away from it. The personalized search can be switched off, as informed by this article. I’ve been wondering why google results are still different on different computers even when both computers have had their web history deleted, so thanks for that, it’s v useful! Google will continue to evolve for sure, so any disadvantage the present state of affairs has for some people will keep changing anatway no doubt.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:11:05 +0000

man you guys make some really thoughtful posts, Lisa. to answer the perosn’s queston: there is a way
to opt out of personalization, but it’s a pain in the a$$. if you append &pws=0 or &pwst=0 to the end
of the search query string,, you get de-personalized results (that is, according to aaron wall).
but i’ve tried it and I think it does sti,, work. can anyone confirm that?
If it does, let me know, and we’ll buid a little search filter app that will automatically append this and share it with the
OutSpoken Media community.

By: Rifki

Rifki — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:28:34 +0000

I like this Lisa, thanks for a great post. I have to agree that lately Google has gone a bit over the top by cramming so much into its search page. It feels like the real time search feature was hastily implemented just to keep in with Twitter, and without much thought for its real usefulness. Google is trying to be all things to all people which is never a good idea.

Rifki

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:39:46 +0000

Google is becoming Skynet. (Not an original statement by any means, but it has merit.)

By: argone

argone — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:52:54 +0000

Well, here is something to think about as far as Google and its strategies
and principles go:

http://preciseinfo.org/Convert/We_are_here_to_change_the_world_01.html

By: Skateboard

Skateboard — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:49:20 +0000

Very good post! Thank you for the inspiration! As humans we’re the ones responsible for our -positive- development!
Well written, too! (I had to use my translation tool twice :))

By: Jim Rudnick

Jim Rudnick — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:01:07 +0000

Totally agree with you on the ‘direction’ that Google seems to be leading us all in….and I so agree too with the comment from Udi that the changes need to be optional….and from what I see in the past week, they’re not so optional especially the Real Time functionality! THAT needs to be addressed, eh!

Jim

By: UK SEO Mark Rushworth

UK SEO Mark Rushworth — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:10:17 +0000

I wish Google had decided to keep the organic search minimal as search back in 2003 was brilliant!

Like you suggest, i think personalised search should be optional, but i’d go a step further and suggest that all ‘value added’ features such as froogle/base, images and video results should be optional too. I’d also like Google.co.uk to work properly distinguishing between global and .co.uk search results based on the radio button… its there, so why not use it correctly?

By: Data Entry Services

Data Entry Services — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:21:52 +0000

Totally agree Lisa. How do I quantify my SEO efforts if I only get results personalized for me. I can’t even figure out how to UN-PERSONALIZE the results so I know the general public won’t.