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Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
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Re: Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
#12Funny, AltaVista doesn't seem to think too highly of itself:
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=search+e...
Re: Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
#13dogpile is coming on #1 for me
you are probably logged in and it's giving you custom results. Dogpile is #2 for me. On bing #1 result is Dogpile On Yahoo #1 result is Yahoo On Dogpile, #1 result is Dogpile On Ask, #1 result is Ask On Altavista, #1 result is Yahoo
I'm not logged in and I'm also getting Dogpile as #1 result. I hate that when google alters my results according to my country/login.
Re: Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
#14I think its more impressive that Google doesn't even rank itself in the top 10
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Re: Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
#15I think its more impressive that Google doesn't even rank itself in the top 10
Hm I think this is Google making sense: why display itself as a result? You're obviously not looking for Google if you're using Google to find a search engine.
Re: Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
you are probably logged in and it's giving you custom results. Dogpile is #2 for me. On bing #1 result is Dogpile On Yahoo #1 result is Yahoo On Dogpile, #1 result is Dogpile On Ask, #1 result is Ask On Altavista, #1 result is Yahoo
I'm not logged in and I'm also getting Dogpile as #1 result. I hate that when google alters my results according to my country/login.
Out of curiosity, why does this bother you?
Re: Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
#17dogpile is coming on #1 for me
you are probably logged in and it's giving you custom results. Dogpile is #2 for me. On bing #1 result is Dogpile On Yahoo #1 result is Yahoo On Dogpile, #1 result is Dogpile On Ask, #1 result is Ask On Altavista, #1 result is Yahoo
It's not a result of being logged in. I was logged in, and signed out, and dogpile was still above altavista when I refreshed the page. However, when I cleared my cookies, Altavista and dogpile switched places.
Most likely due to this : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=977461
Who knows why Google calculated that my behavior indicates I'd be more interested in dogpile...
Re: Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
#18Due to Google's preference to key word search at the moment?
Google doesn't like semantic now as I recall someone posted a link saying that maybe half a year ago.
Re: Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
#19For me,
#1 A news related to GOOG
#2 Dogpile
#3 Altavista
But for the query 'search' Altavista is the #1 and Google is next to it.
Re: Either Google thinks Altavista is the best search engine or it has the best SEO
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not logged in and I'm also getting Dogpile as #1 result. I hate that when google alters my results according to my country/login.
Out of curiosity, why does this bother you?
What guarantees that the results are better for you?
I feel I can trust the "results for everybody" better as are likely more thoroughly verified.