Google assigns dollar value to search results

[KevinG]

This is a little scary, but not too surprising.

Google's ads are paid for; its search results, supposedly, are untainted by commercial concerns. But French blog Zorgloob landed itself a screenshot that calls Google's purity into question. It shows what Google search results look like to a member of Google's AdWords sales team. The picture raises more questions than it answers. For example, why are there dollar signs among so-called "natural" search results? And why does Google note whether a website in its search results belongs to an advertiser? Here's the image.



The most charitable interpretation? Google's salespeople uses these results to identify potential customers. An AdWords sales rep probably looks up a product and these results indicate if each site turned up by Google's algorithmic search is also advertising with AdWords. If a site owner is not, the GG Score indicates how much that site owner would have to pay to get a sponsored link to appear near the top for that search term.

But there's a darker possibility -- that this data factors into Google's website-ranking algorithms. Small website owners have long groused that their Google rankings seem to change arbitrarily, and that buying AdWords seems to be the only way to get back in Google's good graces. Until now, it's been easy to dismiss their complaints as mere whining. But if Google is actively tracking the revenue potential of websites that appear in its search results, who's to say it can't quietly tweak those results to help its salespeople meet their quotas?

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[Top_Of_Google_Man]

Interesting read.

[willwank]

Hmm... Interesting. I would like to know what the second G stands for and why the use of the term "Score"...

[Rcourt64]

Google says it's getting ready to work with a UK television company and is talking about doing T.V marketing?
Does anyone else hear about this? It was on the TV news here this evening.

[gonzo]

You really show your ignorance harping on this google conspiracy and scam line.

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by gonzo

You really show your ignorance harping on this google conspiracy and scam line.

Harping? I just ask a question about a story I saw on the TV news.
Has for the picture? I found it humorous. "Get over it Mr.GonZo"
You guys keep feeding this beast called Google, and enjoy it's lucrative fruits for now. but when it finally spreads & acquires marketing control all over, and you no longer have any say-so with your websites, and Google decides the cans & cant's of your projects? I'll be to late.
Just keep putting your eggs into one basket

[EmporerEJ]

So what's all the fuss?
Angry 'cause you didn't buy Google stock when it was $117/share?

(I'm telling you, I'm still kicking myself)

Personally though, I would have chickened out long ago and sold....

But holy hell, it just keeps going up and up.
Just when I think it topped out......up it goes again.
'course, RICK is another one I DID take advantage of, and it has done very well.
We need more adult industry stocks to invest in.

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

So what's all the fuss?
Angry 'cause you didn't buy Google stock when it was $117/share?

(I'm telling you, I'm still kicking myself)

Personally though, I would have chickened out long ago and sold....

But holy hell, it just keeps going up and up.
Just when I think it topped out......up it goes again.
'course, RICK is another one I DID take advantage of, and it has done very well.
We need more adult industry stocks to invest in.

I bought at 2 and sold at 5, I could have sworn for a split @ 5. but its at 7 now, I truly was depending on that split.

Oh well.., Que sera, sera

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

I bought at 2 and sold at 5, I could have sworn for a split @ 5. but its at 7 now, I truly was depending on that split.

Oh well.., Que sera, sera

RICK, or Google?
RICK, is at 15.77, i bought @ 1.05

[Rcourt64]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

RICK, or Google?
RICK, is at 15.77, i bought @ 1.05

The ones in the thread title
who may u got?

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

The ones in the thread title
who may u got?

Yea....up another $27.00 today....another 4.4%

[Rcourt64]

Rick's Cabaret International Inc. ???
Last Trade:15.85Trade Time:3:57PM ETChange: 0.02 (0.13%)

[EmporerEJ]

Originally Posted by Rcourt64

Rick's Cabaret International Inc. ???
Last Trade:15.85Trade Time:3:57PM ETChange: 0.02 (0.13%)

Yes, and Goog ended up with a $28.15 Increase, which is 4.45% increase FOR THE DAY.
4 1/2% on your money FOR A DAY? Sign Me UP!

[softball]

Originally Posted by EmporerEJ

So what's all the fuss?
Angry 'cause you didn't buy Google stock when it was $117/share?

(I'm telling you, I'm still kicking myself)

Personally though, I would have chickened out long ago and sold....

But holy hell, it just keeps going up and up.
Just when I think it topped out......up it goes again.
'course, RICK is another one I DID take advantage of, and it has done very well.
We need more adult industry stocks to invest in.

I bought a shit pot of US Dollars at 1.10 Canadian. Will I make out like a bandit, or will I be killed. Nah, the former makes sense. So, why is your gas five bucks a gallon? because the US Dollar is getting the shit kicked out of it, and you guys don't even know. So oil is 95 bucks a barrel , but that was only 80 bucks a couple of weeks ago. Still is if your buck was worth something. Nothing has changed except the US Peso.

So, Mike AI, after all the bluster, dick swinging, right wing rhetoric you used to post here, I guess you are pretty humbled at the moment. Your home town has been thrown to the dogs and your gated community is worth less than you paid for it. Time to sell the cars? I hate to say it, but I told you so. Actually, I don't hate to say it. BTW, with all this currency shit goining on mike ai, my little apartment just hit 1.3 million us dollars and my other properties have doubled with this currency mess. Hows life behind the gate. Oh my god this is toooooo funny.

[EmporerEJ]

yap, yap, yap.....

The American Dollar, is, after all your blathering, Still the American Dollar.
And it always will be.
It will always be the standard "other" currency is compared to.


$2.39 US still gets me a gallon of tea, and now you poor bastards above the cold line can actually afford to buy my machine.
I'm loving it.