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I'm disappointed at the general trend of ranking shopping sites higher than review and information sites when searching for a product name. If I'm looking for s
by sili 16y ago
I'm disappointed at the general trend of ranking shopping sites higher than review and information sites when searching for a product name. If I'm looking for some products, most likely I need information about it, and I don't need to be bombarded by what equates to the circulars. If I want to buy it I can go directly to Amazon's site or any other online store. I think results from shopping sites should be kept inside the Shopping search (unless they also contain product reviews I suppose.)
- dansingerman 16y agoYou would have thought it was in Google's interests to do this. If the organic search tended to be full of the reviews (and if I am searching for a product I am generally going to want to find out about it, especially user reviews, not where to buy it), then that incentivizes the online shops to buy paid ads. Everyone seems a winner if they do this, so it seems strange they may have gone in the other direction.
- YooLi 16y agoI disagree. When I enter just a product name, I am looking for the product. When I want reviews, I append 'reviews' to the product name. I would venture to guess that I am not the only one expecting it to work that way if that's the way Google has changed things.
- ollysb 16y agoUnfortunately it's rare that you find a product listing which hasn't got a "review(s)" section at the end so this isn't an effective strategy.