Google improvements?
Google is my main search engine of choice and probably always will be, but sometimes I just scratch my head at how some results get ranked so high.
Example 1: My wireless mouse recently died which gave me a great excuse to spend the money on a great gaming mouse. I do some searches along the lines of best gaming mouse and what do I get? Forum posts from 2006, because you know I hear technology doesn't move too fast when it comes to these complicated new mouse thingies. This is my husband's biggest complaint about Google, many times when you're searching for info you get forum posts on the front page that are way too old to be of any value anymore. I think in some regards Google places waaayyy too much value on age.
(As a joke I just searched for "what's playing this weekend?" without the quotes and in the top 5 results the newest page is from Sept. 12, 2009 and the oldest is Oct. 25, 2008, not very useful. Of course my query wasn't very useful either, but I just did it to prove a humorous point.)
Example 2: I was doing some keyword research for a local business and the first result for their city and industry (example: detroit accountant) was a page that said, "To edit this page login to your admin panel" and that was it! Underneath it were a bunch of sites that had not only, you know, content, but useful content like reviews and such. The only positive thing the first result had going for it from what I could tell was that it was over 10 years old and wasn't set to expire for another 3, plus the domain was the exact keyword phrase. How does a site with ZERO content get to number 1 when there are helpful sites out there?
This is just driving me crazy, more from a user perspective than an IM perspective, and I just want to know if you guys think that caffeine is going to fix a lot of these issues. It seems like right now Google weighs far too heavily in certain areas without taking in the whole picture of a site.
Example 1: My wireless mouse recently died which gave me a great excuse to spend the money on a great gaming mouse. I do some searches along the lines of best gaming mouse and what do I get? Forum posts from 2006, because you know I hear technology doesn't move too fast when it comes to these complicated new mouse thingies. This is my husband's biggest complaint about Google, many times when you're searching for info you get forum posts on the front page that are way too old to be of any value anymore. I think in some regards Google places waaayyy too much value on age.
(As a joke I just searched for "what's playing this weekend?" without the quotes and in the top 5 results the newest page is from Sept. 12, 2009 and the oldest is Oct. 25, 2008, not very useful. Of course my query wasn't very useful either, but I just did it to prove a humorous point.)
Example 2: I was doing some keyword research for a local business and the first result for their city and industry (example: detroit accountant) was a page that said, "To edit this page login to your admin panel" and that was it! Underneath it were a bunch of sites that had not only, you know, content, but useful content like reviews and such. The only positive thing the first result had going for it from what I could tell was that it was over 10 years old and wasn't set to expire for another 3, plus the domain was the exact keyword phrase. How does a site with ZERO content get to number 1 when there are helpful sites out there?
This is just driving me crazy, more from a user perspective than an IM perspective, and I just want to know if you guys think that caffeine is going to fix a lot of these issues. It seems like right now Google weighs far too heavily in certain areas without taking in the whole picture of a site.
Just when you think you've got it all figured out, someone changes the rules.