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I searched for "django video tutorial" earlier today. The first organic result? A link to the official django docs and that page does not even include the word "video".
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.
When you're in the barn, its hard to smell the odors - so having this progressive timeline is probably the only way to objectively see how much ground we are really losing.
This really upset me, but what can we do?
The rest of us should take a step back and think about actual quality of the results. Now there are a lot of ads on that page, but are the organic results going to be more useful then the Google Maps matches? For a query like "dentist" I think Maps could be a better source for answers.
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.
Why is it weird timing that a bug would appear when a system is being modified? Isn't that pretty much when most bugs are introduced?
When most people search for "san francisco dentists," why wouldn't they want locations and phone numbers of some of these dentists presented right upfront? This is no different than what Bing, Yahoo and even Duck Duck Go are doing, and there's nothing wrong with making the result page more useful for people without them having to click away.
Sure, Google has been getting a little too spammy with the amount of ads in the yellow box, but complaining when they surface Youtube videos or maps is ridiculous. Nine times out of 10, that's exactly what the user is looking for.