Internet Business & Marketing Strategy - Andy Beard » real time search http://andybeard.eu Internet Marketing, Lead Acquisition, Online Business Strategy and Social Media with Original Opinion and Loads of Attitude Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:16:17 +0000 en hourly 1 Google Real Time Search Too Personal? http://andybeard.eu/2601/google-real-time-search-too-personal.html http://andybeard.eu/2601/google-real-time-search-too-personal.html#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:21:17 +0000 Andy Beard http://andybeard.eu/?p=2601 I think Google have got their priorities wrong with Real Time search, though I haven’t seen this on other “ego search” terms. I checked with Danny Sullivan and Michael Arrington to start with.

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]]> I think Google have got their priorities wrong with Real Time search, though I haven’t seen this on other “ego search” terms. I checked with Danny Sullivan and Michael Arrington to start with.

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As I have mentioned before, I could understand and even encourage Google to somehow decide to pull in my most recent blog posts as part of their real time search. Most people searching for me it is most likely a regular reader doing a navigational query looking for my latest blog posts, not my latest tweets.

I see this with both a UK and US search, personalization switched off in the query, and logged out

http://www.google.com/search?q=andy+beard&pws=0&gl=US
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=andy+beard&pws=0&gl=UK

This is an “Anytime” search – no need to select “latest”

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Update – Chris Brogan Too

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I wonder where Chris would prefer the traffic to go, blog or Twitter?

I can’t track search traffic to Twitter

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