Google - Yahoo search fails Videography Lab test
UPDATE: Saturday - June 14, 2008
Early this year we posted our concerns about Google's dominance in search/advertising and suggested that only a Microsoft/Yahoo hookup could hope to compete with Google. We have all watched in amazement as Yahoo courted just about anybody in the media world to resist a relationship with Microsoft. During our postings, our research division, Videography Lab, monitored search positions of their URL, www.videographyblog.com on all search engines based on the keyword search for "videography".
The results were a roller coaster ride ranging from ranking on page 8 up to page 1 and down again to page 15 on Google and Yahoo search. On Microsoft Live Search we showed consistently high ratings and can be found on page 1. This is reasonable since we are the seminal authors of the word "videography" [1972 AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER magazine]. Google has shown it's ability and willingness to manually manipulate search position to punish those who speak out against their monopoly.
[Note: the comments at the bottom of this article reflect our position since we originally challenged Google]
The latest Google/Yahoo maneuver to combine advertising and search services and monopolize the acquisition of information on the web must be stopped!
Left unchecked, this monopoly will allow powerful interests to control the most basic information that you seek, with no viable competitive alternative. Those with the most money to offer "Goohoo" will be at the top of the search. Legitimate scholarship will be lost to commercial and special interests.
If you want to preview this "Brave New World" than try this test. Use Google to search "There is absolutely no inevitability, as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening" [include the quotes]. This should take you to the author of this quote and the work in which it was written . . . but it does not.
If your answer is Marshall McLuhan in "The Medium is the Massage" Google has led you astray. Finding the right answer online isn't easy because Google has buried the original author and work so deep that we vidiots ran out of patience looking at page after page of search results.
When or if you do find quoted author and work, please share the answer under "Comments" below.
And remember, this is just one example of the flawed Google algorithm that is gaining indomitable commercial clout and dumbing down the entire world. See what the American Consumer Institute has to say about the Google/Yahoo deal.
Early this year we posted our concerns about Google's dominance in search/advertising and suggested that only a Microsoft/Yahoo hookup could hope to compete with Google. We have all watched in amazement as Yahoo courted just about anybody in the media world to resist a relationship with Microsoft. During our postings, our research division, Videography Lab, monitored search positions of their URL, www.videographyblog.com on all search engines based on the keyword search for "videography".
The results were a roller coaster ride ranging from ranking on page 8 up to page 1 and down again to page 15 on Google and Yahoo search. On Microsoft Live Search we showed consistently high ratings and can be found on page 1. This is reasonable since we are the seminal authors of the word "videography" [1972 AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER magazine]. Google has shown it's ability and willingness to manually manipulate search position to punish those who speak out against their monopoly.
[Note: the comments at the bottom of this article reflect our position since we originally challenged Google]
The latest Google/Yahoo maneuver to combine advertising and search services and monopolize the acquisition of information on the web must be stopped!
Left unchecked, this monopoly will allow powerful interests to control the most basic information that you seek, with no viable competitive alternative. Those with the most money to offer "Goohoo" will be at the top of the search. Legitimate scholarship will be lost to commercial and special interests.
If you want to preview this "Brave New World" than try this test. Use Google to search "There is absolutely no inevitability, as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening" [include the quotes]. This should take you to the author of this quote and the work in which it was written . . . but it does not.
If your answer is Marshall McLuhan in "The Medium is the Massage" Google has led you astray. Finding the right answer online isn't easy because Google has buried the original author and work so deep that we vidiots ran out of patience looking at page after page of search results.
When or if you do find quoted author and work, please share the answer under "Comments" below.
And remember, this is just one example of the flawed Google algorithm that is gaining indomitable commercial clout and dumbing down the entire world. See what the American Consumer Institute has to say about the Google/Yahoo deal.
posted by Vid Opiná at
13:23
7 Comments:
February 12 - Videography is now no longer saying did you mean radiography.
thanks
Steve
We assume that you meant "Google is now no longer responding to videography searches with the boilerplate 'Did you mean radiography?'"
Vidude
As of 12:25 hours [PST] a google of [Videography Lab] still comes up with "Did you mean Radiography Lab"!
Vidude
Yep - that is what I meant
"Google is now no longer responding to videography searches with the boilerplate 'Did you mean radiography?'"
- I was checking [Videography] not [Videography Lab]
Google are still showing it for [Videography lab] but are not showing it for [Videography].
With one of my sites Peepel.com, when we googled for that we used to get "Did you mean Peepal" - but in the last few months it has stopped showing that.
Happy Valentines Day,
I began my work as usual, doing a triage of all the email that has come in overnight. Than I check the page rankings of on Google, Yahoo and MSN Live Search using a simple search for "videography" not Videography Lab.
There has been a remarkable surge for my www.videographyblog.com this month. As February began we were deep down on page 8 or so. This morning we were on Page 1 for Google, Page 1 for Live Search and Page 2 on Yahoo.
That is, by any standards, a phenomenal rise in position. Getting heard is important to me [as with most modern humans] so I am pleased.
Since we published this blog www.videographyblog.com skyrocketed to high standings as reported.
Now it is April 29 and once again we are buried down on page 3 or so. We can only surmise that it was either manually reduced in rating or that we were ganged up by "videographers" who don't want the theory of videography to disrupt their cash cow.
Check out the prices for wedding videographers. The canned Kodak moments that they shoot do not reflect the reality of the people in attendance. To really know an event you've got to get inside the group . . . even to the point that they don't know when you are shooting video. Than you get the real deal.
Microsoft Live Search has www.videographyblog.com on Page 1 last entry.
Perhaps Microsoft enjoyed the plunge in stock of Google after we published in January. Buyer beware. The same fragility and competitive factors are in place today.
We foresee Microsoft acquiring Yahoo and giving Google a run for the ad money.
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