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Originally Posted by Relentless
Urbandictionary.com moved up for a bunch of solid terms.
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theres been a lot of talk about this change among politicos, because it knocked santorum off the top, replacing that listing with teh urbandictionary listing.
Danny sullivan talking about it...
http://searchengineland.com/santorum...-google-113214
Google Responds: It?s SafeSearch To Blame
Postscript (10:30 AM ET): Google has sent this statement:
We make more than 500 changes to our algorithms in a typical year, and with each of those changes sites will shuffle to different positions in our search results. We have not manually taken action to change the ranking of the site.
Postscript 2 (12:45 PM ET): Google tells me this is related to its improved SafeSearch algorithm, one of the other changes that was just announced. There?s no explanation yet about about why Spreading Santorum got hit while the Urban Dictionary page did not.
Postscript 3 (7:00 PM PT): Google says that the change even impacts results if you have SafeSearch set to off. In other words, even if you turn SafeSearch off ? and should get no adult content filtered out ? adult content may still be filtered out. That?s pretty weird.
The best I can think is that if you go back to what Google posted about the SafeSearch change:
We have updated how we deal with adult content, making it more accurate and robust. Now, irrelevant adult content is less likely to show up for many queries.