Google Can’t Get You Lucky Anymore: It is Search Result Impotent
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Google Can’t Get You Lucky Anymore: It is Search Result Impotent
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#2What do you think, am I right about this?
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#3This may be the result of some weird personalization specific to the author, which I suppose may be interesting itself. I do not see similar results at all (one result from coolibar for sun hats and 1 result from amazon for womens sun hats).
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#4Weird I have pretty different results to your search. Odd outlier outcome of Google personalization or perhaps even malware?
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#5Unfortunately, I can't reproduce these results. I'm not saying they are false, but that maybe they have to do with personalized results for the author. Did you try logging out and doing the same searches? There was a maximum of results from the same page that could be shown (I think it was about five), so I'm not sure how you can get this results.
Also, there's another issue. Even if you get the same webpages all the time, that doesn't mean that those aren't the same results. Especially when webpages today have a lot of different content. I.e. diversity != quality.
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#6I tried "sun hats" and got the ad from coolibar and only one other result out of ten on the first page. So, I ask for some more facts, not just anecdotal evidence of failure. Do you visit coolibar regularly? were you logged in or incognito? I tried both and got similar results. How many searches did you perform to come up with these anomalies? Have you seen this behavior before or perhaps it was just a bug?
UPDATE: It appears we have been spammed. To answer my own question, I think he has been on coolibar. This person is launching a site that is a directory for hats (first link above blog post). His lack of any response says it all. Clever ploy ...
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#7gmyachtsman, if you are searching specifically for products, try using Google's shopping search : http://www.google.com/shopping
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#8What do you think, am I right about this?
It doesn't honestly look like it. I've not been able to get the same results as you either. Mine look varied and useful.
Although I will say that now with Instant search, the "I'm feeling lucky" button is both redundant and impossible to use. As soon as I start typing, I get a results display and the IFL button has disappeared. (To be fair, there's no point really)
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#9What do you think, am I right about this?
Here's what I see (with personalisation). Without is roughly the same, only the two ads top right are missing and replaced with something that looks more generic.
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#10This may be the result of some weird personalization specific to the author, which I suppose may be interesting itself. I do not see similar results at all (one result from coolibar for sun hats and 1 result from amazon for womens sun hats).
I am getting this kind of result all the time from google. Interesting you are not.