Category Archives: personalised search

Personalised and real-time search – let me turn them off!

March 12, 2010 – 1:08 pm

Call me an old Luddite if you will, but to me – as a user rather than just as an SEO – personalised search is a faulty concept. The whole point of “search” is that I’m looking for something I usually don’t know much about – so why would I want sites that I already [...]

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The mysterious Case of Google rankings

August 7, 2008 – 1:36 pm

A couple of months ago there were rumours from the USA of case sensitivity in Google ranking results. This week I saw the first evidence of it in the UK results for one of my clients. What I saw initially was fairly dramatic (I won’t show the actual keywords but just the pattern) on [...]

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Was your search really for what you entered?

May 29, 2008 – 10:29 pm

There has been some speculation recently that searches are no longer isolated from each other in Google but that the previous search that you made may influence the current one, even when you aren’t logged in to any form of account. This follows an interview by Danny Sullivan with Google’s Marissa Mayer in April. This [...]

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