"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.
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...
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.
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.
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"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.
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-c...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/us/text-message-service-he...
http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2012/01/23/photos-from-the-nfc-...
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1035221-nfc-championship-...
http://espn.go.com/blog/nflnation/post/_/id/52524/page/count...
This was definitely not happening one month ago.
This is incorrect, as the second section on this page demonstrates: http://www.focusontheuser.org/examples.php
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
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.
The Google+ page is moved up within the natural search results.