How Google is Killing Organic Search

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Post by akharris » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:11 PM UTC

How Google is Killing Organic Search
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Re: How Google is Killing Organic Search

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Post by sctt311 » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:30 PM UTC

Great article! Sad in a way how Google continues to dominate and impose it's will on us.

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Post by Eclyps » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:33 PM UTC

For some reason I was surprised to see bing's results even more cluttered and useless... http://i.imgur.com/kuRTMhO.png

You would think that bing would be trying to win the popularity contest by actually providing more relevant searches in the short term and then expanding ads in the future...

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Post by sethbannon » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:40 PM UTC

DuckDuckGo is far less cluttered, which makes sense considering they have less things to push aside from the results: http://i.imgur.com/OnBJHkS.png

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Post by andrewljohnson » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:43 PM UTC

I'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.

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Post by GuiA » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

sethbannon wrote: post #4

DuckDuckGo is far less cluttered, which makes sense considering they have less things to push aside from the results: http://i.imgur.com/OnBJHkS.png

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 hear them.

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Post by philhippus » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

Let them greed themselves into irrelevance I say. That leaves the door open for some YC startup to implement some type of peer to peer search protocol that will leave google in the dust.

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Post by oceanstone » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

There is a way to increase the percentage of organic search results on a Google page, with relative ease. Just scroll down.

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Post by ZanderEarth32 » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:48 PM UTC

While this is true, users are still clicking organic results much more often than the paid options even though the organic results real estate keeps shrinking[1].

Even with the shrinking organic screen space, the first three results still capture the vast majority of the clicks, so results 4-10 receive fewer clicks regardless of the amount of space given to organic results.

I'd like to see a study where organic results 1-10 all appear on the page above the fold, giving users the ability to see all the results without having to scroll and measure click through rates at that time.

1. http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2200730/Organic-vs.-Pai...

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Post by zalew » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 4:49 PM UTC

andrewljohnson wrote: post #5

I'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.

mine is even worse, because google apparently has trouble with me not being in the USA http://i.imgur.com/sQ5lue3.png