How does Google determine what's relevant?

eman · 2006-09-21, 10:03 AM

I've got a theory - and I think it all boils down to what's relevant for Google.

"free trailers" produces just one sponsored link and so from Google's point of view the search isn't relevant in money terms. Why bother displaying seach results when you can encourage the surfer to look for something else - something that will generate some income from adwords.

"private jet", on the other hand, generates a load of ads - 4 complete pages, in fact - so the search is relevant

In other words, Google is now less about relevance of content, and more about relevance of income from adwords.

That's what I think, anyway.

Hopefully Google will soon become less relevant.

Linkster · 2006-09-22, 08:32 AM

eman - there actually is an explanation for what you saw and exactly how that "see the omitted results" works

First - the reason that you saw the issue with the pages low count - they are currently redoing the entire database with a refresh that is taking a little longer than normal - and it hasnt totally propagated throughout their datacenters - so results are a little off right now

Second - the ommitted results command works like this:
When they show results for a search they only allow two results from the same page(URL) - that has been part of their algo forever - when you "click to see the ommitted results" it adds in the rest of the pages from that site - the way it does it is in the URL when you click to see the ommitted results is they add &filter=0 to the url which turns off the dupe filter (normally if they are not in an update)

2006-09-22, 08:32 AM	#2
Linkster NO! Im not a female - but being a dragon, I do eat them. Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sex Delta Posts: 5,084	eman - there actually is an explanation for what you saw and exactly how that "see the omitted results" works First - the reason that you saw the issue with the pages low count - they are currently redoing the entire database with a refresh that is taking a little longer than normal - and it hasnt totally propagated throughout their datacenters - so results are a little off right now Second - the ommitted results command works like this: When they show results for a search they only allow two results from the same page(URL) - that has been part of their algo forever - when you "click to see the ommitted results" it adds in the rest of the pages from that site - the way it does it is in the URL when you click to see the ommitted results is they add &filter=0 to the url which turns off the dupe filter (normally if they are not in an update) __________________ Pussy Chompers Porn Links NSCash

2006-09-21, 10:03 AM	#1
eman Solipsists of the world unite Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: xxx axis Posts: 639	I've got a theory - and I think it all boils down to what's relevant for Google. "free trailers" produces just one sponsored link and so from Google's point of view the search isn't relevant in money terms. Why bother displaying seach results when you can encourage the surfer to look for something else - something that will generate some income from adwords. "private jet", on the other hand, generates a load of ads - 4 complete pages, in fact - so the search is relevant In other words, Google is now less about relevance of content, and more about relevance of income from adwords. That's what I think, anyway. Hopefully Google will soon become less relevant.