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So how do you like the new Google?
Chieftess
Published on January 20, 2013
Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.
I've been reading a lot about the changes to Google the past couple months but I haven't really paid much attention to *Google* lately - I just type stuff into the search bar and go.
But I've been researching something in depth this weekend and I finally noticed it.
A lot of the sites I used to count on for pure information are just not there. A lot of sites with good content that are *not* in blog form are not there anymore. What's replaced kind of a homemade information network are platforms that are multi-user; forums mostly, or main company sites.
So for any keyword I'd been looking up today, I actually had to page all the way back to page five to find what I was looking for. On the first page it would look like; company site, then forum, then forum, then maybe a slightly irrelevant keyword, then possibly nothing.
Is it possible Google is overdoing it here?
I don't mind reading user content or forum posts but that's not what I necessarily want to surf to when I'm looking for information. A good expert writeup is much more helpful in a lot of cases. And in a lot of cases there were forum posts that had links inside them that were absolutely keyword relevant, but the actual content was *pages away.*
I actually went to BING to try to get a better page outlay -- and I did.
Weird, right?
Is it a mistake or a "test" of something for this weekend, or have they lost their minds at Google?
But I've been researching something in depth this weekend and I finally noticed it.
A lot of the sites I used to count on for pure information are just not there. A lot of sites with good content that are *not* in blog form are not there anymore. What's replaced kind of a homemade information network are platforms that are multi-user; forums mostly, or main company sites.
So for any keyword I'd been looking up today, I actually had to page all the way back to page five to find what I was looking for. On the first page it would look like; company site, then forum, then forum, then maybe a slightly irrelevant keyword, then possibly nothing.
Is it possible Google is overdoing it here?
I don't mind reading user content or forum posts but that's not what I necessarily want to surf to when I'm looking for information. A good expert writeup is much more helpful in a lot of cases. And in a lot of cases there were forum posts that had links inside them that were absolutely keyword relevant, but the actual content was *pages away.*
I actually went to BING to try to get a better page outlay -- and I did.
Weird, right?
Is it a mistake or a "test" of something for this weekend, or have they lost their minds at Google?
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