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Re: How Search Works

#101
post #94

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>> If you read the right sources a majority of seo advice is correct. That's a contradiction. If you have to read the right sources, then by definition the majority of advice is not correct.

Why does it mean the majority of advice is not correct? That is a myth.

Because the majority of advice is coming from the _wrong_ sources

Re: How Search Works

#102
post #26

thx matt and the google search team for doing this. it's nothing new for technically inclined people, but every little bit helps. helps for what? teaching people to worry about the right aspects of search and the impact on their business, instead of worrying about bullshitphrases that were planted in their head by a SEO agency key account or a blogpost from 2008. so well yes, thx for doing this. i will send it to my…

  "80 Prozent von allem, was über SEO geschrieben wird, ist Bullshit"
some things just cross the language boundaries.

Re: How Search Works

#104
post #60

I keep checking every so often, but searching for "this phrase" or +absolute +requirement is still broken. Even "Verbatim", isn't. If they can't even get simple search right, who would trust them with anything more?

Do you have some example queries to debug?

I wish I had saved the results every time over the last few years that Google showed me a page it claimed had what I was looking for, when neither searching the visible text or even the source code of the page produced any such string. I am sure that it's happened to me hundreds of times by now, if not thousands. For a long time, it was surprising and ranged from annoying to infuriating. Now I just sigh and accept it as the cost of Googling.

Re: How Search Works

#105

I missed most of the content on this ... page ? Exhibit ? Installation ? whatever it's called, because it told me to scroll, I did, and I scrolled through a bunch of what looks like empty space and arrived at the end ("and that's how search works"). The user is apparently supposed to stop and watch some animation at certain places, but it's not clear where to stop scrolling. Perfect example, near the top there's some…

I gave you a +1 because I had the same "scrolling issue". After your comment I noticed a lot of comments on the same issue, so I decided to try it again. The second time I noticed that a blue arrow flashes at the bottom of the screen after all the content has populated, almost promoting you to scroll down. I suppose most everyone, including me, initially scrolled to fast to even see the first "arrow/prompt". Despite…

>I too was unsure what to call it, but if they listen to the feedback, I think "whatever it's called" is really awesome and could be a legitimate substitute to the ppt platform. At least I would be interested in making a few presentations with it.

Agreed, I like it. It looks like the stuff that goes on in futuristic movies, with a lot of things happening on the screen and no one is really looking at anything particular but it's impressive. This has a potential. Who's up to make this WIC software?

Re: How Search Works

#106
post #80
post #14

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aka 95+ petabytes.

100 million gigabytes = 100 petabytes ~= 88.8 pebibytes 100 million gibibytes ~= 95 pebibytes

I see the value of this distinction, but I can't shake the feeling that a word used for years has been co-opted by marketing and replaced with something that sounds silly when spoken out loud.

Re: How Search Works

#107

I missed most of the content on this ... page ? Exhibit ? Installation ? whatever it's called, because it told me to scroll, I did, and I scrolled through a bunch of what looks like empty space and arrived at the end ("and that's how search works"). The user is apparently supposed to stop and watch some animation at certain places, but it's not clear where to stop scrolling. Perfect example, near the top there's some…

Scrolling with single 'space' key presses works fine on a desktop.

Re: How Search Works

#108
post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does it mean the majority of advice is not correct? That is a myth.

Because the majority of advice is coming from the _wrong_ sources

You say majority like its fact. Its not.

Here is a list the top 100 seo blogs, find the BS in there. www.branded3.com/seo-blogs/

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