Comments on: Google is doing something

By: Maria Reyes-McDavis

Maria Reyes-McDavis — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:08:06 +0000

As a user, I think the feature would be useful — as an internet marketer I hate the idea …
I see some major implications throughout the SEO community

By: Derrick Tan

Derrick Tan — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:27:43 +0000

Google is feeling the pressure from the public and they must come out with something quick and good. But they have shot themselves on the foot by ‘copying’ some ideas from ‘some’ place. Haha!

By: SEO Optimization

SEO Optimization — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:04:06 +0000

Hi Collin,
From what I understood, moving (voting) results will be for personal screen, and am not sure if it will work also for the public rankings, but if the voting applies for public search engine rankings than they are being opening themselves to get exposed.

How i see this feature is, making it harder for SEO companies and seo experts if users get used to this new feature and can bring up in the serps for a certain keyword when they perform a query, that way, all will look like a social bookmarking site more than a search engine where you get to find NEW sites and not bookmark sites in your SERPs.

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By: Colin King

Colin King — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:47:04 +0000

I think this is a really bad idea… We need both the “mechanical” ranking and the “voting” ranking. Combining them, I can see Google results being warped to much. Just think how big a target Google is right now and they open up there system like this? They are just asking for it.

BTW, where do I subscribe to comments here?