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What if the page you're looking for just happens to contain a lot of content / images / etc? Adding speed to Google's ranking algorithms is only useful for sea
by kpanghmc 17y ago
What if the page you're looking for just happens to contain a lot of content / images / etc?
Adding speed to Google's ranking algorithms is only useful for searches where there are several equally good search results (in which case the fastest would be the one you would want). But in the event that you're actually searching for a lot of information, having fast (but less informative) sites propagate to the top would be detrimental.
- yanw 17y agoAs mentioned relevance is still king: “Google also cautions web site owners not to sacrifice relevance in the name of faster web pages, and even says this new ranking factor will impact very few queries.” It will only factor in less that 1% of querys.
- donaldc 17y agoSpeed is only one factor in their ranking. If a site is notably better than other sites for a query, they said in the article that it will still rank first for that query.