Apparently I’m not the only one who’s seeing better search results from sites other than Google. I wrote about it a couple weeks ago, and have since found a couple others complaining about the exact same thing:
- MSN Search vs. Google: Does Microsoft Like You More Than Google Too?
- Google – Providing the Worst Results… on Purpose?
The former has a lot of good comments that explain what’s probably happening — that since my site’s pretty new it’s in the Google sandbox and thus is being treated as spam until it’s proven otherwise. The second post above addresses the fact that spam sites have overtaken Google pretty heavily over the last few years, comparing Google’s results to other search engines.
After discussing and researching Google SEO techniques to death, I’m stepping back and wondering why it’s my responsibility to do this at all. Isn’t the point of a good search engine that it should look at my site and know how it should be ranked without me having to tweak and refine my SEO strategy? Of course this is why the spam sites are so prevalent — they have SEO experts behind their development, not that they’re really relevant to my search results.
And again, it all comes down to the question that others are asking — why aren’t Google’s search results as good anymore?
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I agree totally. Having given this some more thought (I am the author of the first article), I’m wondering why there is a sandbox at all?
In the age of the Internet, things move so quickly, and I’m confident that there are *tons* of sites sitting in the Google sandbox that would be relevant for what I am looking for. Similarly, other Internet users are likely failing to find my site — and yours.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been more public criticism of this. It seems that Google is shifting the burden and penalizing the “real” sites out there. A similar event is occuring on the AdSense program as well, but that’s a topic for anothe rday.
Regards,
Dharmesh
Google isn’t better because it doesn’t have to be. It has the mindshare, and the walletshare.
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