Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?

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Post by stakent » Fri, Nov 06, 2009, 2:26 PM UTC

Excuse Me, But Where Did Google's Organic Search Results Go?
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Post by neovive » Fri, Nov 06, 2009, 2:36 PM UTC

There is clearly a Google-risk in many markets -- especially those dealing with content and aggregation. It's hard to compete with the massive scale that Google has at its fingertips. They can quickly enter many markets, outside of their core, if they choose to do so. Most of the time (but not always) they will become a major competitor. Think GMail, Voice, Mobile Maps, etc.

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Post by mattmanser » Fri, Nov 06, 2009, 2:50 PM UTC

neovive wrote: post #2

There is clearly a Google-risk in many markets -- especially those dealing with content and aggregation. It's hard to compete with the massive scale that Google has at its fingertips. They can quickly enter many markets, outside of their core, if they choose to do so. Most of the time (but not always) they will become a major competitor. Think GMail, Voice, Mobile Maps, etc.

I wonder how long it will take them to get slapped by someone though? In the UK papers have to clearly identify adverts if presented in an editorial format. Why do google get away with presenting adverts as search results without clearly identifying them?

A greyed out 'sponsored link' in the right hand corner is just pathetic, I bet most users don't even understand what that means.

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Post by byrneseyeview » Fri, Nov 06, 2009, 2:52 PM UTC

mattmanser wrote: post #3

neovive wrote: post #2

There is clearly a Google-risk in many markets -- especially those dealing with content and aggregation. It's hard to compete with the massive scale that Google has at its fingertips. They can quickly enter many markets, outside of their core, if they choose to do so. Most of the time (but not always) they will become a major competitor. Think GMail, Voice, Mobile Maps, etc.

I wonder how long it will take them to get slapped by someone though? In the UK papers have to clearly identify adverts if presented in an editorial format. Why do google get away with presenting adverts as search results without clearly identifying them? A greyed out 'sponsored link' in the right hand corner is just pathetic, I bet most users don't even understand what that means.

That's how US papers identify advertisements, too. Fortune has a multi-page article on how effective corporate jets are (it actually has about as much data and case studies as a typical Fortune article), and that piece has a modest "Special advertising section" header.

However, organic and natural results are both the result of spending money and effort; the only difference is the that you can get high organic results without much money, if you have a lot of time.

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Post by biznerd » Fri, Nov 06, 2009, 3:10 PM UTC

neovive wrote: post #2

There is clearly a Google-risk in many markets -- especially those dealing with content and aggregation. It's hard to compete with the massive scale that Google has at its fingertips. They can quickly enter many markets, outside of their core, if they choose to do so. Most of the time (but not always) they will become a major competitor. Think GMail, Voice, Mobile Maps, etc.

For many terms as well they're featuring Youtube at the top . So not only are they getting users to ignore organic SEO results. They're driving traffic to their properties.

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Post by TFrancis » Fri, Nov 06, 2009, 3:13 PM UTC

Wow, AdBlock makes Google better. I didn't know this was going on.

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Post by sireat » Fri, Nov 06, 2009, 3:15 PM UTC

That particular example was hilariously sad. Almost reminded me of late 90s.

Good news is, if Google gets too aggressive with their ads, Bing(or someone else) will be happy to take over.

Incidentally, I do not get the same polluted results Aaron got, when using simple search from Firefox. I just get Google Map thing, single side Adword on the side and the rest are organic results. Most likely reason is that I am too far from San Francisco right now...

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Post by landyman » Fri, Nov 06, 2009, 3:29 PM UTC

biznerd wrote: post #5

neovive wrote: post #2

There is clearly a Google-risk in many markets -- especially those dealing with content and aggregation. It's hard to compete with the massive scale that Google has at its fingertips. They can quickly enter many markets, outside of their core, if they choose to do so. Most of the time (but not always) they will become a major competitor. Think GMail, Voice, Mobile Maps, etc.

For many terms as well they're featuring Youtube at the top . So not only are they getting users to ignore organic SEO results. They're driving traffic to their properties.

That's the point though, right? They show results for Youtube, Google Maps, Google News, etc. so they can keep you on their websites to look at more ads. The more ads they show, the more money they get.