What will happen if google...
 

decides to list the sponsors as regular listings

oy vey

1 thing for sure they will make more money because sponsors will get more clicks

very curious as to why they have not done this

anyone have an insight?

:eek7

I didn't really understand what you meant

what will happen if cats learn to fly

I don't think they will. There was an article in Playboy (I think last month's issue) about the Google guys. They said they don't have ads in the results, simply because they want to offer the most relevant search results, and cannot be bought.

lol like the first result for most top keywords are relevant

... that's pretty much why most of the top10 non adult results show google adsense.
:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I never understand people that say: "yeah, playboy has some great articles", christ, if you want great articles read forbes, playboy is for tits&ass.

calm down dont get excited

you seem to jump everytime I say google

just stay calm, nothing is happening your all good

IMO they want to give the surfer the most relevant results for his search term

and they don't want to profit directly from porn...Money isn't everything, if it was, they wouldn't ban online casino ads...

They tried this last year. Porn was not the hardest hit but mainstream was wreaked.

porn and casinos is not what makes google

now try searching for stuff and click on the first 5 links, in most cases the results is not relevant and the sponsors are way more relevant

Look id rather they keep it as is, you hear me trax?

Just trying to see what people think or know thats it

So Trax CALM the fuck down

what?

Playboy Sept 2004 issue:

BRIN: One thing that's important to us is the distiction between advertising and pure search results. We make it clear when something is paid for. Our advertising is off to the side and in a couple of slots across the top. Ads are clearly marked. ... Beyond ads, with other search engines, payment affects the results. We think that's a slippery slope. At Google, the search result cannot be bought or paid for.

Hope this answers your question. ;)

Google realizes the reason they are successful and more popular than any other search engine is because they give the surfer relevant and untainted (purchased) search results. As for SE spam, that is another topic.

I concur

well thats not the reason they are the most popular and most used engine, when they started tons of people tried the same many who raised more money then them.

Here is what they did that I think helped them get to number 1, they made a simple page with a search box, they didnt bombard the surfer with a million links like yahoo and many other engines, they didnt try to do everything.

If you look at successful companies online like ebay and google and many others you will notice they have 1 thing in common, they do 1 thing and 1 thing only and keep it simple.

Even in adult I credit thehuns success for keeping it simple, easy to load etc.

If amazon would just concentrate on book selling and not on selling, toys, electronics, kitchen ware etc they would of been better off financially.

BTW it's a very interesting article/interview. I suggest everyone read it ;)

can you link to it please?

I actually typed the portion straight from the print mag. If you want more it's gonna cost ya :1orglaugh

$4.99 at your nearest newsstand. hehe

oh cool ill get it

There it is :thumbsup

Yes, I agree that Google owes part of its success to the fact that they have kept things simple and poured all their resources into mainly one thing, being the best search engine possible. However, their untainted results are a big part of their success as well. Even with their simple interface, if they provided the same type of search results as Yahoo's directory, or AOL's overture/inktomi results, their traffic would drop off significantly.

Surfers dont want 3 pages of sponsor listed paysites when they go to a search engine and type in "porn pics". The majority of the time they're looking for some obscure free site made by some porn fan that happened to put up 10 pages of free porn pics. These are the type of honest listings Google provides that you will rarely see in Overture results and/or Yahoo's directory.

BRIN: Google results cannot be bought! We keeps it real bitch!


Okay, he really didn't say that.

oops

lol
I'm all good & don't jump on anything I agree to.
I just don't see the point in that assumption.
no foundation for thoughts of anything.
Google is not in a situation that they can change their business model from one day to another.
not with MSN & yahoo in the back.

thats it

Fuck google if they do that. :)

Itll never happen Dogs are way smarter and will learn first and then patent the ability :2 cents:

Regards,

Lee

They already do list sponsors (do a search for milfhunter). I think what you're asking is would Google take kickbacks or incentives to rank a sponsor higher in their rankings. If that's what you're asking, I strongly believe they'll do no such thing. There was an engine that did this and it really started the downfall of their engine. I can't remember if it was OpenText or Infoseek that did this but one of the two did it during their upwards climb in the SE world.

If Google really really wanted to do this, and I was in Google's shoes, I'd buy out an SEO company as discretely as possible and have that SEO firm do all the work to getting top placements and simply pay Google at year end the profits. It's easier to shelter it this way.

But as for Google directly, I don't see them altering their actual listings for profit any time soon.

WG