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  • Danny Sullivan   Feb 28 2012   Flag

    Yep. Yep, yep, yep.

  • Paul Knekk   Feb 28 2012   Flag

    Way to provide value with that comment, Danny.

  • Alex Cook   Feb 28 2012   Flag

    Really interesting post. I did a few test queries for "seo companies" - the results are pretty interesting. Not logged into my Google account: http://imgur.com/mjNes Logged into my Google account: http://imgur.com/OXowV I'm following Rand on Google+, therefore his results are likely relevant and displayed to me when I'm logged in. It's also interesting how although I'm not following Tyson Hymas, his Google+ avatar is still shown because he's one of the rel="author" values set on the page.

  • Joel K   Feb 29 2012   Flag

    The fact that anyone in this industry can thumbs down this post shows there really are some delusional, confused people out there. Wil's only summing up what everybody already knows: Google is broken.

  • Mark Proctor   Feb 29 2012   Flag

    I think it's maybe more the case that people expect miracles from what is in essence, a computer algorithm. By it's very nature it must run on rules - I'm sure google would be glad to hear recommendations on improving their latent semantic analysis if you have some though?

  • AngelosPapaioannidis   Mar 01 2012   Flag

    Amazing post and quite some truths there!

  • Tad Chef   Mar 02 2012   Flag

    Yeah, this is going on for years. Google can't get its results right. They don't practice what they preach.

  • Ker Communications   Mar 03 2012   Flag

    I want to +1 this article a million times.

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