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It is more than just places. Search for 'windows 7' and one the top results is a google product page that is nothing more than an aggregation of others pages. O
by jshen 16y ago
It is more than just places. Search for 'windows 7' and one the top results is a google product page that is nothing more than an aggregation of others pages. On it's face this seems fine, but google tells others that they don't want their search results linking to what is essentially another pages search results. Unless of course that other page of search results is a google product.
Here's another example, I've always dominated a vanity search for my name (it's an uncommon name). One day out of the blue I wasn't the top result, some with my name was simply because they put a video on YouTube and being a google product it gets special treatment.
- adambyrtek 16y ago> because they put a video on YouTube and being a google product it gets special treatment How do you know it gets any special treatment? Didn't it occur to you that because so many sites link to YouTube it can be perfectly natural that it has a high PageRank?
- jshen 16y agoI didn't explain the situation well. It didn't show up as an organic result, it showed up as a "videos for xxx". But, the product pages are a much better example. I should have left it at that. They are showing links to their product pages that are essentially a page of aggregated search results. This is something they actively try to prevent when the aggregated search results pages belong to someone else.