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This attempt proofs Google can do better in social results than what it is doing now. But, this also shows what great importance Google gives to Google+. They h

This attempt proofs Google can do better in social results than what it is doing now. But, this also shows what great importance Google gives to Google+. They have made a conscious decision to compromise search quality to push users to Google+. A lot of us may believe that this won't work for Google+, but Google must think otherwise. Google has made their bet on using its most potent weapon - search to increase the user base of Google+. This also shows why we need a strong alternative to Google Search. I hope Bing hooks up with Twitter, Facebook and other services like Foursquare to make a better social search. They have tried too long to beat Google at its own game.

ok_craig 15y ago
"They have made a conscious decision to compromise search quality to push users to Google+" It's my understanding that search results are unchanged - is this wrong? I thought the social box on the side was just something that came up in addition to the natural search results.
- blakeross 15y ago
  This is incorrect, as the second section on this page demonstrates: http://www.focusontheuser.org/examples.php http://www.focusontheuser.org/examples.php
  - ok_craig 15y ago
    Hm, that's not really what I mean. That's just providing additional information in the result. That additional info favors Google+, sure, but it's still not a rearrangement of the primary natural search results.
    - blakeross 15y ago
      The Google+ page is moved up within the natural search results.
    - ok_craig 15y ago
      @blakeross As a branch of the main Macy's result, yeah. It isn't a natural result itself. If your goal is to browse simply natural results you just look at the primary results. Those do not appear to be different.
- fred_nada 15y ago
  Incorrect. I did a search for "test" while logged out. In the top 5 results there are 2 results for MG Seigler who I am not connected with in any way. Then I did another search for NFC Championship game - Again, MG Siegler #5 in the results. Apparently he made a comment that he was going to the game. So this guy who is not associated with football in any way who wrote a 10 word fragment on his wall showed up above the following results... http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82622cb4/article/nfc-championship-game-could-be-won-at-line-of-scrimmage http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82622cb4/article/nfc-c... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/us/text-message-service-helps-officials-at-candlestick.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/us/text-message-service-he... http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2012/01/23/photos-from-the-nfc-championship-game/ http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2012/01/23/photos-from-the-nfc-... http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1035221-nfc-championship-2012-san-francisco-49ers-must-focus-on-positives http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1035221-nfc-championship-... http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/52524/page/countdown/countdown-live-nfc-championship-game-2 http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/52524/page/count... This was definitely not happening one month ago.

ok_craig 15y ago

"They have made a conscious decision to compromise search quality to push users to Google+" It's my understanding that search results are unchanged - is this wrong? I thought the social box on the side was just something that came up in addition to the natural search results.

blakeross 15y ago
This is incorrect, as the second section on this page demonstrates: http://www.focusontheuser.org/examples.php http://www.focusontheuser.org/examples.php
- ok_craig 15y ago
  Hm, that's not really what I mean. That's just providing additional information in the result. That additional info favors Google+, sure, but it's still not a rearrangement of the primary natural search results.
  - blakeross 15y ago
    The Google+ page is moved up within the natural search results.
  - ok_craig 15y ago
    @blakeross As a branch of the main Macy's result, yeah. It isn't a natural result itself. If your goal is to browse simply natural results you just look at the primary results. Those do not appear to be different.
fred_nada 15y ago
Incorrect. I did a search for "test" while logged out. In the top 5 results there are 2 results for MG Seigler who I am not connected with in any way. Then I did another search for NFC Championship game - Again, MG Siegler #5 in the results. Apparently he made a comment that he was going to the game. So this guy who is not associated with football in any way who wrote a 10 word fragment on his wall showed up above the following results... http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82622cb4/article/nfc-championship-game-could-be-won-at-line-of-scrimmage http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82622cb4/article/nfc-c... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/us/text-message-service-helps-officials-at-candlestick.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/us/text-message-service-he... http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2012/01/23/photos-from-the-nfc-championship-game/ http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2012/01/23/photos-from-the-nfc-... http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1035221-nfc-championship-2012-san-francisco-49ers-must-focus-on-positives http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1035221-nfc-championship-... http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/52524/page/countdown/countdown-live-nfc-championship-game-2 http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/52524/page/count... This was definitely not happening one month ago.