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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 delicious - Google Search

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Dave January 1, 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.
Jeremy Luebke January 1, 2008 at 9:45 pm: Don’t worry, it will be replaced by Knol soon…
Ben Cook January 1, 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.
SEMSpot January 2, 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

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marc January 2, 2008 at 12:57 am: is this just an example of G’s algorithm weighing ‘links’ of higher importance than a root domain?
Justin January 2, 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?
Hooman January 2, 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
Szy. January 2, 2008 at 4:27 pm: Haha, maybe you should try this:

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=delicious

;P
Dustin Brewer January 2, 2008 at 4:39 pm: Were you logged in when you did this search? delicious is coming up #1
Tom Schmitz January 2, 2008 at 6:55 pm: Michael, I suppose your next post will be, “Proof that Google hand edits results?”
tzd January 2, 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…
Ciara Writer January 4, 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.
George January 4, 2008 at 3:54 pm: delicious needs to adds some meta data, to rank first.
@Szy January 6, 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.
Jamie Cooper January 6, 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
Matt Cutts January 7, 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.
Michael Gray January 7, 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
Directory Junction January 11, 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.
Edward January 11, 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.