Comments on: Google To Launch Customizable Search Tonight

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:00:19 +0000

Wait, so I can now waste my time organizing Google’s search index for them so that the next time I search for the same thing I can see my “custom” results?
How many people are constantly searching for the same thing that they need a custom set of results for the next time? If you need a “custom” set of links, there’s this thing called bookmarks built into your browser.

Wika Search was a flop as was other attempts at this sort of thing (anyone remember Rollyo?). Integrating similar features into Google won’t change the the basic nature of people… they’re lazy and/or have better things than donating their time to make the search they just did better for the next guy.

By: jimmy

jimmy — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:48:58 +0000

It does NOT affect google search rankings in *ANY* way, so does absolutely nothing for SEO, which is a good thing, I can only imagine the abuse this thing would get. It is only used for your personal session and may in the future rank pages differently when using your own PC but does not affect anyone else.

By: bess

bess — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:49:06 +0000

Personally I like to use my search results totally unchanged so this is not something that come handy to me, at least I don’t see the usefulness at this moment. Also, from a SEO perspective, you work to put a website somewhere on the first positions and then your work gets messed because of this? OK, I don’t know how much this will influence SERP ranking. This I think is part of that behavioral search they were speaking. If a lot of people will send a particular page down, means it’s bad so it will get de-ranked, I presume.

By: saulyx

saulyx — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:42:04 +0000

Hey, I’m sure that people will start abusing it if it influences SEO, blackhat has done loads of harm already and if this works the way we all think – it will be worse then blackhat, bots, perl scripts, hidden buttons, etc…

Any different opinion?

By: halfasleeps

halfasleeps — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:43:17 +0000

I am currently seeing this feature on Chrome but not on Firefox or IE…wonder why?

By: mkoenig

mkoenig — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:07:13 +0000

This should improve the content of the web.

To answer Manna i think they SEO will get you there but if your page stinks people will bump you down.

This should force webmsaters to improve content.

By: Manna

Manna — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:01:34 +0000

What would this mean for SEO? How can web designers optimize a site based on someone else’s personal preferences?

Any thoughts?
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