Are We Falling out of Love with Google?, SEO : iPedia

According to the July 2005 Nielsen//NetRatings survey of the search habits of over a million web users,

Google clearly dominates the search market and is twice as popular as its nearest rivals,

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG and LSE: GGEA) is a U.S. public corporation, first incorporated as a privately held corporation in September, 1998, that designs and manages a popular Internet search engine. The company employs approximately 5,700 employees and is based in Mountain View, California. Eric Schmidt, former chief executive officer of Novell, was named Google's CEO when co-founder Larry Page stepped down.
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Increasingly however, frustration has begun to build in the web community with regard to Google’s reluctance to index and catalogue new websites.

Newly launched websites are being spidered by Google’s robots as normal but the

MSN (or the Microsoft Network) is a collection of Internet services provided by Microsoft. Initially released by Microsoft on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of Windows 95, the range of services has since expanded greatly. The Hotmail webmail service was amongst the first, followed by the instant messenger service MSN Messenger, which has recently been completely replaced by Windows Live Messenger. Recently, MSN has relaunched many of its services, to compete with rivals, such as Google; new services include MSN Virtual Earth, Desktop Search, and a customizable search engine.
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This listings delay has become known as the “Sandbox” and would appear to also affect existing sites that undergo significant design or navigational changes.

As with all things Google related, the exact nature of any filters or algorithmic changes remains purely conjecture as Google never reveals anything about its inner workings.

Empirical evidence however does seem to point to a delaying filter being applied by Google in an effort to stop those seeking to unfairly manipulate its search listings.

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Many people speak about the Information Age as the advent of the Knowledge Age [citation needed] or knowledge society, the information society, and information technologies, and even though information science and computer
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A search engine or search service is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network or a personal computer. The search engine allows one to ask for content meeting specific criteria (typically those containing a given word or phrase) and retrieves a list of references that match those criteria. Search engines use regularly updated indexes to operate quickly and efficiently. Without further qualification, search engine usually refers to a Web search engine, which searches for information on the public
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This being the case, Google’s motives for delaying the cataloguing of new websites for up to nine months, would indeed seem honorable in its intentions.

The problem is that owners of legitimate new web sites are being denied the opportunity to position their products and services in front of Google’s massive audience.

Those of a less than generous nature may say that this is an attempt by Google not to rid the world of search engine spammers, but instead is a covert operation designed to increased

Indeed many are now openly asking why Google does not give users the option to search the fabled “Sandbox” for new web sites and content, and provide warnings that these new sites have not yet proved themselves through longevity, relevance or popularity.

Rumblings within the internet community now point out that the original quality that first attracted them to Google, the ability to easily find new and exciting content, is now absent from its present offerings and that alternatives such as MSN now offer the real deal in terms of new and original content.

The one thing that has always stood Google in good stead is its ability to adapt and evolve whist mirroring the needs of the internet community.

Only time will tell if it’s mystical “Sandbox” proves to be an anti-spamming filter too far and if Google can once again return to the affections of the web community.

Ivor Conway is the Managing Director of Neuchi, UK Search Engine Marketing and UK Search Engine Optimisation company that promotes the matching of UK client’s products to interested and ready to buy online customers.

Please vistit us at http://www.neuchi.co.uk to learn how we can help your UK based company increase sales and turnover.

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Are We Falling out of Love with Google?

According to the July 2005 Nielsen//NetRatings survey of the search habits of over a million web users, Google accounts for over 46.2% of the estimated 4.5 billion searches that occurred in that month.

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