Great article! Sad in a way how Google continues to dominate and impose it's will on us.
Yeah, fancy showing relevant local results when you search for a Restaurant! The bastards!
How Google is Killing Organic Search
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#32To be fair searching for "italian restaurants" in San Francisco the first result returned is a Yelp link on mobile, so I guess that the Zagat one wasn't a way to show necessarily a Google owned property. Everything else is the same.
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#33I'm typically a Google fanboy, but spot on. Here's a search for sushi for me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/q3epmld2ffqzg3f/Screen%20Shot%2020... It's like full circle back to Yahoo. Maybe this is a result of listening to the data too much, and not depending on the greater vision enough. Or maybe it's the future and you're gonna love it.
Maybe I'm the weirdo, but I think that's an extremely useful results page. What are you looking for when you search for "sushi" besides (more likely) nearby sushi restaurants or (less likely) information about what sushi is. The screen real estate seems to reflect those two possibilities in what seems to me to be a sensible proportion.
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#34DuckDuckGo is far less cluttered, which makes sense considering they have less things to push aside from the results: http://i.imgur.com/OnBJHkS.png
I've been using StartPage.com which another HNer had recommended. I like it better than DDG because it seems faster and it also uses Google's search results instead of Bing's.
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I believe it might be because DDG is not Google. What works on google might not work the same in DDG. How long have you been using google? Probably long time. During this time you (unconsiously) learned how to ask questions "google way", now you need to learn to quack :p I also found that DDG sometimes (not very often) does not find what I am looking for. Mostly it is because I know nothing of the subject ie. using a…
> How long have you been using google? Probably long time. During this time you (unconsiously) learned how to ask questions "google way", now you need to learn to quack :p I understand this, but most of us are looking for an alternative to Google and not a completely different search engine.
Google with Adblock does the trick.
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#36There is a way to increase the percentage of organic search results on a Google page, with relative ease. Just scroll down.
I mean, really, what is the article complaining about here? The most often clicked on organic search results appear above the fold. If you need more, scroll down a bit. Maybe I'm the minority, but if what I'm looking for isn't one of the first few results, I modify my query. Google is showing the stuff that makes it money, and the organic stuff we're most likely to need. And at the end of the day, what we're talking…
Agreed! Personally, I use DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons, but I have a ton of respect for Google. The blog post is complaining about some trivial stuff, that I'm sure Google has spent (hundreds of) thousands analyzing.
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#37The rub is that a paid result can be just as useful from the consumer perspective as an organic result. If that's the case, Google will show the paid result every time.
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#38The auction model for ads basically ruins internet searches in transactional categories. If you want to win at the "italian restaurant" search game, you have to bid the highest for the ad, which means you must have the highest margin. The best way to win is to open a restaurant with ridiculously high margins (over priced wine and cheap ingredients). Want the "cheapest car insurance"? Google is zero help. It sends you…
I think your hypothesis is quite far off. Can you give an example of an auto insurance company that is a non-profit? I couldn't find any. Perhaps you mean a mutual insurance company? Furthermore, when I bought car insurance last month, Geico gave me the most coverage for the least amount of money (after quite a bit of research), so I also don't agree with your assertation that Google is no help in that regard. While…
USAA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAA#Returning_profits_to_the_i...), although most people aren't eligible (https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/pub_eligibility_task_entry).
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In light of "designy" things like this, and other "ideological" things that have transpired in the past few weeks, I've been forcing myself to use DuckDuckGo. It's been about a month now, and I find the results terrible . I want to love it, but the first 10 results are pretty much never what I want. Sadly, Google still performs better on this front for me. If anyone has tips to make it better, I'd be very happy to he…
Bing is a little bit better in terms of screen real estate. They seem to push the top organic results at the top of the page, and put local results in between the top 2-3 and the next 6 results. There are barely any ads. Also, after a year of non-stop use, i can tell you right now that Bing predicts what I'm looking for far better than Google ever did.
Are we using the same bing? The searches I just tested returned just as many bing-centric results as google does.
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