Comments on: When Search & Social Act Like Children, Users Lose

By: Jonny Ross

Jonny Ross — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:20:14 +0000

That really did make me ROFL, similar to them penalizing themselves recently too!!!

hysterical!
Jonny

By: Eric Stauffer

Eric Stauffer — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:13:06 +0000

I have been checking out the personal search tool for the past few days and it is sub-par at best. They can pull all the data they want from Google + but the only people really using it are web professionals it seems. In fact, most of my Facebook friends do not even have Google + profiles.

It is like trying to tell a news story with about 10% of the information.

By: Thao Tran

Thao Tran — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:24:39 +0000

I went to Google + by typing out the URL in my address bar and guess what I found? A warning that Google + is not a trusted site because Google Chrome does not deem it as so! Talk about ROFL and screwing yourself over.

Here’s a screenshot of my twitter update: https://twitter.com/#!/ThaoTT/status/157537846071271424

By: Ardala Evans

Ardala Evans — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:44:35 +0000

I will be keeping the personal search turned off.

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:29:36 +0000

As I showed in a screen-cap I took yesterday (when I was NOT signed in to Google), Google's "suggestions" are pathetic. Attempting to squeeze the world into Google's own sandbox while blatantly ignoring what truly is best for users is just about the most myopic attempt to grow their company I've ever seen.

By: David Wallace

David Wallace — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:21:44 +0000

Maybe it’s high time that all of us marketing professionals should switch to Bing for search and only use Google “when we have to.” I’m trying to do that now and I know other marketers that have done the same. Would be nice if a big enough dent of searchers could do this and send Google a message. Will it happen though? That is the question. ;-)

By: Nancy E. Wigal

Nancy E. Wigal — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:20:44 +0000

A-freakin-men.

I have clients and attendees who run very conservative businesses dealing with the U.S. Federal government asking me why they should sign up for Google + and play this game, because their target market isn’t there, but they keep getting bombarded with the old song “just ’cause everybody does it.”

As an SEOer, I am very distressed at this turn of events. It’s not enough to have to optimize for open searches. Google yanked valuable KWP data from us with users signed in to their Google accounts, and now this. Completely agree that they should grow TF up and realize it’s not about them, it’s about the SEARCHERS. And now I have to add another layer of strategy, as if I’m not busy enough already.

Great article, spot on with your analysis.