Pali unimpressed by Google MySpace search
p2pnet news | Products:- Pali Capital’s Rich Greenfield isn’t overly impressed with Google’s MySpace search algorithms.
“When a Myspace user does a people search for ‘Dan,’ we are pretty sure they are not looking for DNA testing kits,” he says on the Pali site, going on:
“When someone types in ‘Richard,’ they are not looking for how to get rich quickly and when someone types in ‘Beth,’ we are positive they are not looking for Pottery Barn bath products.”
His observations come in a post in which he says everyone’s blaming social networking, “as the culprit for Google’s Myspace monetization problems (meaning people are not thinking about ads when using social networks)”.
But, “the real problem is Google itself and its search algorithms for social networking (Yes, Google does not do everything right),” he goes on.
Note, he says, Myspace recently updated its user interface and improved search, “allowing a user to easily perform five basic searches (Myspace people search, search all of Myspace, search the web, search Myspace music or TV).”
That prompted Greenfield to try Dan, Dan Stone, Richard, Beth and Chris —- with interesting results, as pointed out in the intro.
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Pali -Google’s Algorithms for Myspace Search Need to Improve…A Lot, July 3, 2008
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July 5th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Google can have weird search results. One example I found recently was searching for the Coby website. They make tvs and such. To narrow down the search I thought to use Coby tv as the search first. I got devicemanuals.com, shooping yahoo, answers.com, pricegrabber.com and amazon all on the first page. But nothing about Coby website. Unless I just typed in Coby then it was the first thing to come up.
A lot of times I notice ad sites for products showing up before the main company website.
And myspace just seems to be a way to target the users for various ads.
July 6th, 2008 at 9:44 am
i have given up on search engines especially google.
90% of the results are paid advertising, bogus or misleading websites.
googe only cares about making cash and not about actually providing a proper result.
it would be far better to just have a internet phone book like the yellow pages than trust a cash creating script to find find what you are looking for.