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I aggree with your point #1, if you search for an specific term / domain it should always appear first if there's a direct match. but for #2 there's a pro-comp
by crispyporkbites 7y ago
I aggree with your point #1, if you search for an specific term / domain it should always appear first if there's a direct match.
but for #2 there's a pro-competition argument here. If you search for Expedia and all you ever get is Expedia and expedia pages underneath that, in theory that's good. But what if you don't know about other online travel sites? You'll never see them, so it kind of makes sense that you are shown other sites in there.
Google should recognise that a search for Expedia is either:
a) For Expedia
b) For a travel holiday
and let other competitors rank for b), showing Expedia as the biggest and main CTA on the page.
- JohnFen 7y ago> But what if you don't know about other online travel sites? You'll never see them, so it kind of makes sense that you are shown other sites in there. I don't think that makes sense. Or, at least, such results should be below all the actually relevant results. If I'm searching for Expedia, then what I want is results about Expedia. Nothing else. If I want to know about other travel sites, I'd be searching for "travel sites" instead.
- indecisive_user 7y agoAnd if you don't know the name for the generic product to search for? Jacuzzi, styrofoam, and Super Glue are all brand specific trademarked items[0], but I doubt most users care about that when they're searching for those terms. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
- indecisive_user 7y agoWhat about generic or almost generic trademarks? If I search for something like bandaid I am certainly _not_ expecting Google to rank Johnson and Johnson (the owner of the trademark for bandaid) above other potentially more relevant results. And the same applies to other terms like Kleenex, Ziploc, aspirin, etc.
- kjs3 7y agoso it kind of makes sense that you are shown other sites in there Why? If I search for a specific thing (Expedia), why would Google assume I want to see other options that I did not ask for other than "it's more profitable for Google"? More specifically, in the event I want other options, why is the correct answer "you want to see the other options that are paying Google the most"? That's not "pro-competition", that's "pro-Google". Google should recognise that a search for Expedia is either: a) For Expedia b) For a travel holiday Why, short of mind reading (I assume they're working on it, but it's not in the 10Q), should Google ever assume B?