Comments on: Vertical creep into regular search results in Google http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140 Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Services, Consulting, and Research Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:42:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: William Slawski http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-692 William Slawski Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:45:08 +0000 http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-692 A third option? Mining the data they have, and analyzing it on a larger scale? I don't know how much personalized information you need to decide between showing information about trains or about planes. A third option? Mining the data they have, and analyzing it on a larger scale? I don’t know how much personalized information you need to decide between showing information about trains or about planes.

]]> By: Nadir http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-691 Nadir Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:25:26 +0000 http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-691 Yeah, you know what, I know where it might be coming from: more people are using the train to go to London from Paris rather than the plane. The question is: Did Google know that and added this function "by hand" or did they realize that after gathering personalized information? Yeah, you know what, I know where it might be coming from: more people are using the train to go to London from Paris rather than the plane. The question is: Did Google know that and added this function “by hand” or did they realize that after gathering personalized information?

]]> By: William Slawski http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-690 William Slawski Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:54:59 +0000 http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-690 <a href="http://www.seoprinciple.com/find-a-flight-easily-with-google/15/">Nice post</a>. Interesting the different results you received from the .com and the .fr versions of Google, too. Nice post. Interesting the different results you received from the .com and the .fr versions of Google, too.

]]> By: Nadir http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-689 Nadir Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:36:27 +0000 http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-689 Check out my last post, Google also helps you book a flight, isn't it a nice function? Check out my last post, Google also helps you book a flight, isn’t it a nice function?

]]> By: William Slawski http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-687 William Slawski Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:23:22 +0000 http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-687 Thanks, Nadir. This is an area that people have been quiet about. With the personalization of these vertical items, I can see better result and category matches if the search engines know more about you. When I type in "weather newark" I'm given weather conditions in New Jersey, but I live in Newark, Delaware. If the search engine knew that, it might have responded with the Delaware weather. The same with matching up these results to topics I commonly search for. Just how much information do we want to share with the search engines, though? Like you said with the demographics in paid search, they seem to know more than a little about us anyway. Thanks, Nadir.

This is an area that people have been quiet about.

With the personalization of these vertical items, I can see better result and category matches if the search engines know more about you. When I type in “weather newark” I’m given weather conditions in New Jersey, but I live in Newark, Delaware. If the search engine knew that, it might have responded with the Delaware weather.

The same with matching up these results to topics I commonly search for.

Just how much information do we want to share with the search engines, though?

Like you said with the demographics in paid search, they seem to know more than a little about us anyway.

]]> By: Nadir http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-682 Nadir Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:23:39 +0000 http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=140#comment-682 Nice article Bill, those are always questions that we ask ourselves but never really bring to discussion. I agree that personalized search will greatly influence those types of results: we are already doing it with paid search (see AdCenter and now Google with demographics targets), so it should be coming soon with natural search. Nice article Bill, those are always questions that we ask ourselves but never really bring to discussion. I agree that personalized search will greatly influence those types of results: we are already doing it with paid search (see AdCenter and now Google with demographics targets), so it should be coming soon with natural search.

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