Monday, October 22, 2007

Theres something wrong in Google search!

There is something wrong in the way Google is returning my search results. I gave a string of 'VaibhavMadan Ladoo' for Google to search. It came up with two results - one of them was what I was expecting. So far, so good. Now I open the search result I am interested in and go onto that page. I expect my search keyword to be present in that page. But IT IS NOT. I am not sure what search algorithm Google used, but whatever it was it did not give me the perfect answer. Now my gut feeling on how it worked:

I read somewhere that google also indexes the links within a page. In the search result I got in my example, the keywords are not directly present on the page returned by Google but they are there in one of the pages for which a link was there. Now I think that Google also searched those links within the pages and happened to return this page. Because I knew exactly where the keywords are, I was able to go to the page where the intended result is. But if I do a random search (and that is what happens most of the time) I would never be able to guess this.

GOOGLE GUYS, ARE YOU LISTENING?

Or maybe, a chance for a competitor of Google to distinguish themselves from Google.

I would not really be happy if the keyword itself is not present in the page I open after a search result. RIGHT PATH TO THE WRONG DESTINATION ......

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