Is Google losing its touch?

[BlogDiva]

Interesting article from SEO guru Steven Chapman! We know that Google constantly reviews its ranking practice to keep search engine results real, but the bigger the mouse trap....

I personally rely on Google daily for answers to my questions, and have not really had much of a problem with their results, or felt like I had to sift through pages of junk to find what I was looking for.

Have spammers (and even ethical SEOers) won? Is the Google search getting better...or worse?

Curious to know what you all think!

Here is a link to Chapman's article: Is Google Getting Better, or Worse with Age?

 

[djbaxter]

Google is rapidly approaching the point where their search results are more about sponsored links and ads combined with sites I already have bookmarked than actual search results.

Really, what is the point of highlighting results I've already bookmarked? Presumably, I know about them so a reasonable assumption would be that I'm searching for sites/pages I do NOT know about.

I am at the point where Bing is now my default search engine. I go to Google only when Bing doesn't find what I'm looking for - Google's database is still bigger.

 

[Amy H]

Hmm well for me I still use Google everyday and I don't see much changes, I am still able to find anything that I'm looking for and i think I will stay with them forever unless Yahoo or Bing change.

 

[Frontier Evictions]

Yes, they say Facebook is the new Google.

 

[bigcat1967]

Yes, they say Facebook is the new Google.

I don't agree with that if you are talking about advertisements. People go to FB to socialize - but not to search.

 

[MrPolarZero]

FB is not a search engine, it is actually a website that is designed for socialization. Therefore, we can never say that Facebook is the new Google because i've been using FB for several years and yet i haven't found any reliable information.