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From the article: "The quickest way to do that was to type 'jon mitchell jury duty' into the Google search bar. To my astonishment, the post I wanted was not
by j_col 15y ago
From the article:
"The quickest way to do that was to type 'jon mitchell jury duty' into the Google search bar.
To my astonishment, the post I wanted was not the first result. It was the third. Ranking above the result I wanted were two Google+ posts, one by me, and one by our webmaster Jared, that were nothing more than links to the article with brief comments."
So Google continues to use it's search muscle to promote it's own web services first, and yet some people still find this surprising.
- mamp 15y agoThey should have a section for G+ results which are equivalent of 'paid links' i.e. if their rank has been boosted then mark them as such. Otherwise they risk losing credibility on search results as the first page is not best match but unmarked advertising. While not evil per se, a little naughty.
- benihana 15y agoThe point is that they're doing this, and it's annoying, not surprising.
- hamax 15y agoDid people from your circles +1 any of those 2 posts? If so, the rank is 'reasonable'.