Crippled version of Google?
This is a discussion on Crippled version of Google? within the Google forums, part of the Search Engine Optimisation category; A client called me today and asked why his site wasn’t appearing in Google. I had created his humble site ...
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06-12-2007, 05:51 PM
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 Crippled version of Google? A client called me today and asked why his site wasn’t appearing in Google. I had created his humble site www.nbtrans.ie a few months earlier. So I opened google.ie and searched for noel brennan transport with the ‘pages from Ireland’ option selected. Lo and behold, there he was, first up. That was news to him. So I searched with ‘the web’ as the option and there he was again, first on the list. Thinking later, I remembered him using the google search on Eircom.net when he was showing me competitor websites. So I wondered could the result be different in an ‘enhanced by google’ search on Eircom.net. He didn’t appear, not anywhere. So I did a bit more digging and started to notice other differences. Naturally I double-checked. I even tried resetting my google preferences. Different results, not just search-result order, but number of results found. Take a look at the table here, see what I mean. Digging further, I tried the same searches on iol.ie. Same results as eircom. Could the Irish ISPs bet getting a limited search? So I tried for my friend Noel on tiscali.co.uk. No sign of him, but similar results as Eircom and IOL. The consistent difference between the ‘native’ google search and the Eircom/IOL version of google was the number of results. The ‘native’ google always had more results found. Which leads me to the question – is there a crippled (limited) version of google search for search partners?         |
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11-12-2007, 08:46 PM
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| I know they use an API to get the search result. But why would it be in Google's interest to have partners (including AOL) to have a poorer and less relevant search experience? It has been suggested elsewhere that it's a result of Google's supplemental index? Last edited by Conor O'Nolan; 12-12-2007 at 10:22 AM. |
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11-12-2007, 09:24 PM
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| Eircom have routed their traffic through Germany before. Maybe this has a knock on affect on the search.. |
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12-12-2007, 09:40 AM
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| Doubt it's that. Same result when using AOL.com. Interesting that this thread now shows up in both main google and eircom/iol but my clients site still doesn't show on the partner sites. Seems to reinforce the supplemental index theory. |
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12-12-2007, 10:31 AM
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| That site would seem to fit the supplemental profile, though if G was filtering out supplemental pages to its partner searches it could hardly be described as "crippled".... |
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06-03-2008, 05:52 PM
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| Is it not showing result using aol.com...???But one thing is was wondering why would be Google's interest to have partnersto have a poorer and less relevant search experience? Its really shocking...
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