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Algorithm Tweaking Holiday
It is interesting/annoying watching competitors who have spammed their way into Google appear one minute in the top 5 search results, then drop down further on the page. They are always around like flies, hitting it daily to try to find that one overlooked technique that is either not currently known or would destroy search quality if it was tweaked to much algorithmically to rid it from search.
Bouncing around in search is not just reserved for spammers, something as small as changing some text or links on you homepage can send you into a loop so be careful if you are optimizing your site during times when you make the most sales via organic search.
What unstable search results do for those of us who sell products online is confuse the people looking for stuff in organic search. When the Google serp is in such crazy, constent flux you bounce around for your important “keywords” and lose sales. I do not see this type of chaos going on in Yahoo!, I know… you cannot even compare the two search engines or can you?
I wish more people searched using Yahoo! then I wouldn’t have to be so dependent on one search engine that is honorably trying to do better than the rest. Maybe Google should have an algorithm tweaking holiday a few months out of the year or not tweak certain areas that require seasonal attention!
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May 14th, 2008 at 11:00 am
yahoo is pretty under-appreciated and since it is now doing global searches it could finally improve its market share.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:54 am
It is a shame that Google is such a monopoly - you are correct, they should certainly have a tweaking algorithm day a few times a year at least!
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:31 am
yeah, Google is really crazy. Its result always change these past few weeks. It’s like up and down of rankings, i can’t appreciate what ranking is right and wrong, because it isn’t stable. I agree with firewal that Yahoo is under-appreciated!