No Google, bad dog.

Marty S · 07-02-2009, 06:05 PM

I read recently that Google is starting to "structure" search results for users based upon the types of websites visited and other patterns noted in cookies (I suppose).

I got my friend (live in same city) to do the same search I was doing and he sent me a screen shot. The results were rather different and the top 3 in mine were nowhere to be seen in his.

Does anyone know of a way to avoid such filtering so as to get results that users would likely get (if they didn't search the same terms all the time).

BrianE · 07-02-2009, 06:30 PM

How long was it before your friend searched? Sometimes google shuffles the data centers - I have seen that on my own websites. In case you don't know, you can check it by hovering your cursor over the cached link within the search results. You should see something like 74.125.155.132 in your browser status bar at the bottom.

Slyknight · 07-02-2009, 07:20 PM

Lol..that's the very bad for internet marketers indeed.

Eric Lorence · 07-02-2009, 07:26 PM

The top ten results in Google will be different for the same 20 people, searching the exact same keyword(s), in the same city...

It's been like this for some time now, done the tests to prove it.

Nothing new...

Their just trying to focus in on surfing patterns now.

VoodooMethods · 07-02-2009, 07:37 PM

I did not know this!!

I did know, that it's not the same for people who are NOT local.

Thanks for the tips

Lawrh · 07-02-2009, 07:40 PM

Scroogle Scraper

Scroogle acts as a proxy between you and Google. No cookies, IPs or search data is recorded so no geo location or search results based on past searches.

It's my homepage. Everyone should at least bookmark it.

jennstall · 07-02-2009, 08:18 PM

Thanks for that link, Lawrh. I've just added that to my toolbar. It will be useful!

Frank Donovan · 07-02-2009, 08:30 PM

Hi Slyknight

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slyknight

Lol..that's the very bad for internet marketers indeed.

Help us out here...

How is getting better targeted searchers a bad thing for internet marketers?

Frank

Marty S · 07-02-2009, 10:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lawrh

Scroogle Scraper

Scroogle acts as a proxy between you and Google. No cookies, IPs or search data is recorded so no geo location or search results based on past searches.

It's my homepage. Everyone should at least bookmark it.

Thank you. Exactly what I was looking for.

lansing · 07-02-2009, 10:23 PM

What if you were searching on Google, say checking your rankings for your favorite keywords, and Google "recognized" you as the owner of certain websites, then intentionally showed your websites as some of the top results for the keywords you were searching for? We'd all be dancing in the streets for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

Marty S · 07-02-2009, 11:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lansing

What if you were searching on Google, say checking your rankings for your favorite keywords, and Google "recognized" you as the owner of certain websites, then intentionally showed your websites as some of the top results for the keywords you were searching for? We'd all be dancing in the streets for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

In a way, this is what happens when you constantly do the same the search and gravitate to the same sites over and over. The result is your own personal search results are skewed.

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lansing Warrior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 20 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: No Google, bad dog. What if you were searching on Google, say checking your rankings for your favorite keywords, and Google "recognized" you as the owner of certain websites, then intentionally showed your websites as some of the top results for the keywords you were searching for? We'd all be dancing in the streets for absolutely no reason whatsoever.