Comments on: Google Personalized Results – Ego Search Conundrum

By: Hawaii SEO

Hawaii SEO — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:00:32 +0000

It looks like the Personalized PPC results story just broke.

Search for:weather forecast
Then search for: Hawaii Vacation
Then search again for: weather forecast

See any difference when you repeat the first query?

By: MB Web Design

MB Web Design — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:13:42 +0000

A most interesting read. I’m very tempted to optimise my personal pages so I can rank highly for Mathew (yes, with the one ‘T’), though it would ultimately be a pointless exercise in vanity. Imagine the futility of such an effort if your name happened to be Apple…

By: Hawaii SEO

Hawaii SEO — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:09:34 +0000

I believe they are working very hard to get this right. As soon as they do, you can believe the next thing they release will be Personalized PPC results. This will likely help Google profit by zeroing-in on people who already prefer “Brand X” with an ad thus increasing the click-through rate. If you clicked the ad before, why not improve the position to help increase the chance of you clicking it again? It might already be happening as part of the new quality score, I haven’t tested it but I’m keeping an eye on it.

By: Andy Skelton

Andy Skelton — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:51:17 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know my blogs were noindex until your post showed up in my own “ego Google Blogsearch feed”. Thanks!!

By: Google Personalized Results - Ego Search Conundrum

Google Personalized Results - Ego Search Conundrum — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:26:30 +0000

Google Personalized Results – Ego Search Conundrum…

Great post. Thanks! I’ll add a link to your post….

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:50:55 +0000

Nice post Andy!
I have also done this search before – surprising how common the name Andy is becoming.

I was known as Andrew throughout high school but changed to the shorter form for two reasons: a) it’s more casual and sounds better, and b) there were too many Andrews

But now every second movie or TV show has a character named Andy and I rarely hear the name Andrew these days!

By: swollenpickles

swollenpickles — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:26:36 +0000

My claim to fame is that if you search for swollen pickles in google then my blog is at the top (or it was when i wrote this). I've actually started an experiment targeting random words with a link exchange type thing. It's for the sort of person that wants to rank number one on google for the term 'inferiority'.

By: Johnny Fuery

Johnny Fuery — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:09:41 +0000

Here’s more mystery data to ponder:

Searching in California off of a wireless GSM network (AT&T/Cingular), you were result #20 with personalized search and #7 (yes, SEVEN!) when I logged out altogether.

Now I’m off to do the same with my own ego searches…

By: My Vanity Search: I’m on Google Page 2! : Big Bucks Blogger

My Vanity Search: I’m on Google Page 2! : Big Bucks Blogger — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:48:54 +0000

[...] Andy Beard performed an ego search #16 on a personal search for and #13 on a general search. Naturally, I had to do an ego search. I knew my competition was tough: There is that island. There is also St. Lucia, the candle-topped-patron Saint of Sweden. Both are obviously strong contenders for the #1 result for Lucia in Google. For all I knew, there might actually be someone famous named Lucia. [...]

By: Jonk: cheap websites for Australians

Jonk: cheap websites for Australians — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:54:02 +0000

Hmm that’s quite interesting Andy

And great news for me. That might explain my Google visitors tripling in the past month…