Google has it’s Head up Wikipedias Ass
January 1st, 2008 by Michael Gray in GoogleIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
C’mon Google WTF how can you possibly say that Wikipedia deserves to above Delicious for the search term [delicious] screen shot because the ridiculous ness of this SERP is mind boggling inept
Sphere It
January 1st, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Well the Wiki shows up below Delicious where I’m at, but it showing up above them on any data center is just plain stupid.
January 1st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Don’t worry, it will be replaced by Knol soon…
January 1st, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Unbelievable. Stuff like this is happening all over the place and yet Google still thinks that paid links are the issue. They’re the dumbest smart company I know.
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 am
Wiki shows up #3 for me currently, but still to see it #1 at some point in time is fucking stupid. Wiki showing up at the top for as many searches as it does is stupid. Sad thing is when Knol goes live, I am sure it will replace Wiki at the top. So we will see #1 Knol #2 Wiki #3 Poor site that should be #1
Steve
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:57 am
is this just an example of G’s algorithm weighing ‘links’ of higher importance than a root domain?
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:04 am
I randomly saw the same thing earlier today, but now it’s fixed. I wonder if they read your post and edited it? Or maybe someone over at yahoo noticed and called the right person?
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:32 am
Oops! As I see at the moment, “del.icio.us” is at the top for “delicious”!
Maybe it’s fixed up, or maybe it’s because of my Ubuntu-FireFox-Based query: http://www.google.com/search?q=delicious&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Haha, maybe you should try this:
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=delicious
;P
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Were you logged in when you did this search? delicious is coming up #1
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Michael, I suppose your next post will be, “Proof that Google hand edits results?”
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
lol, yeah, another example, search for Mark Cuban and you get a Wikipedia result rather than mark cubans blog. Markcuban has a 301 to blogmaverick, but I wonder if it didnt, would it still favor wikipedia? It probably would…
January 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am
That is funny…and it’s true, wikipedia always arrive on page 1 and often number 1 for company name searches or product searches. Which is ridiculous given that wikipedia isn’t even accurate half the time.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
delicious needs to adds some meta data, to rank first.
January 6th, 2008 at 3:53 am
@szy:
No to live.com simply on the basis that it believes “delicious” as a search means it can “suggest” a search having to do with the flavor of love. For the love of god.
January 6th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I can actually see a day when regulators will break up Google for having too much power. For this reason we need search engines like Yahoo and Ask.com
January 7th, 2008 at 12:00 am
The query [delicious] worked fine to return del.icio.us at #1 for me. &pws=0 also returns the right result at #1. Not sure why you saw that–maybe personalized results.
January 7th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I’ve disabled personalized search multiple times so it’s not that, and I agree it was bizarre which is why I did the screen shot, BTW it looks fixed now
January 11th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Hey Greywolf.
For me I got delicious as #1.
delicious inner page as #2.
Good ole wiki as number 3.
I don’t think I’ve ever enabled the personalized search thing, but maybe try the search thru a proxy or something and see if they change at all.
January 11th, 2008 at 10:12 am
It seems to be showing up in 1st or 2nd depending on where you are. The wikipedia results shows up 1st for me and delicious is in 2nd.