If you’ve been involved in SEO for a while chances are you’ve heard the term google whacking. For those of you that haven’t basically it was coming up with a search term for a real word that had exactly one result. Due to the way Google does things now it’s nearly impossible, and hardly any fun to try and find one anymore. However with bing it’s entirely possible, and in some cases it looks intentional.Here’s an example go to Bing and do a search for [perez hilton] screen shot of my results below for reference.
Being a well known, popular, and controversial celebrity blogger, he really should have more results, for example check out google [perez hilton] and yahoo [perez hilton]. So have you seen any other intentional one listing only results in bing, if so drop them in the comments below …
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Most of the social networks have one listing [myspace, facebook, xanga, etc..]
Yahoo
Google
AOL
all just return 1 result (assuming you count the site links as part of that 1 result)
1-10 results are shown when doing a search from Sweden. I wish I could be the only one getting listed for my name. Chances should be bigger but… no.
1-10. Wtf…should be: 2 870 000
I couldn’t find any others like that but it is kind of strange that they would only return one result. You would think they would at least return a few other links such as a wikipedia page as that is usually what I end up going to anyways when I search about someone in a search engine as most people already know Perez Hiltons website address. Either way Bing seems to give more accurate results overall right now as Google is too interested in clogging up their results with videos, feeds, products, etc.
Yes – that is by design. However, if you click on the “see other results containing Perez Hilton” the rest of the algo web results appear. We carefully monitor these “Best Match” results to make sure we aren’t firing this result type too frequently – let us know if you have feedback!
I dunno man, sounds like some kind of paid inclusion covert operation Bing is working on.
Well i haven’t seen such results but i have seen bing ranking affiliate links…
Not affiliate sites, affiliate links!!!
For a well known website in Greece that has an affiliate program if you run a query for its brand name there it is the affiliate link at #5
What is more this affiliate link is a link provided by a third party affiliate company and not the well know website itself
Total failure and i guess this is why bing is the 4th engine in my country with less than 1,5%
Very interesting, I tried numerous other ‘celebs’ and they all have multiple listings. I’m sure Bing will soon be featuring the (gag) Prez Hilton on their advertisements, etc. and this could be one reason for the results.
CNN
eBay
CraigsList
IMDB
It seems that anything with a high alexa ranking is coming up with 1 search unless it has subdomains like Flicker
Hmm interesting. I wonder if it is even possible to get ranked in bing for them keywords unless you are the site itself.
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It’s weird why Bing only returns one result for that search, I wonder why that is. I mean, other websites (like this post, for example) must have mentioned his name….
Snopes
Mapquest
etsy
webmd
Drudge Report
Huffington Post
Flickr
LinkedIn
usps (plus map)
fedex, ups (plus map and sponsored link)
Career Builder (plus sponsored link)
NY Times (1 entry plus 1 headline entry), but Washington Post has many entries
Hulu (1 entry plus 1 video link)
It looks like the single entry often kicks in when the query indicates a request for one particular site rather than a more general topic. Is this Bing’s version of the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button?
This is werid its not showing this in the UK index for any of these terms. It just shows normal results.
I use Greasemonkey to number my results in Bing. The “Best Match” result is not numbered. However, when I “search for other results…” those results are numbered. Seems to me that the best mach process is built completely differently than natural search.
Wow Bing better make some changes to their indexing if they are giving these sort of results. they must be doing something right for yahoo to now be powered by them?? I have tested this and obviously someone from Bing has been reading this blog post as they have now sorted this bug out.
Sometimes it helps that when in those respective search engines that you are signed out of your profile so that repetitive keywords aren’t logged to your profile. I find that when searching in google specifically that I get very different results when logged into google then when I am logged out. Thanks for the info…I like the post!
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Bing has a long way to go before they even want to think about meeting the quality of relevance google has to offer.
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