The results are getting uglier by the day.

Three sponsored results followed by one lone link (this is a new one), then news, then local, and finally half way down the page we see the SERPS.

Should we still refer to Google as a search engine? Perhaps, Ad Agency would be more fitting.

Here is an example: http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...x+real+estate+

That is bad. I used to use Google almost exclusively, but lately there's a lot of junk showing up in the results -- particularly cross-linked blog information. I've gone back to Yahoo and MSN and tend to get better natural search results.

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Google is going downhill big time. So much for the "Do no evil" approach they where going to take. It is clear that their #1 priority is their shareholders.

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My thoughts on the Sarasota Association of REALTORS actions.

I have to wonder about anyone or any corporation who has a motto "Do no evil." Why advertise it, if you don't "do no evil" like minded people will eventually notice, others would not notice if you hit them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Does anyone have any idea what the lone link is between the sponsored results and the local is?

I keep seeing it when I search Phoenix Real Estate

If you don't see it, hit the search button a couple of times.

In my opinion they are and will cater to not only the share holders but also the companies that pay for inclusions. I think that is going to give there competition (Yahoo, MSN) a strong comeback.

As I'm sure I've said before on here I have always found more relevant sites in which I am looking for on Yahoo than Goggle. I think that Goggle has made it extremely to hard to get good sites listed. PR, Back Links, Sand Box, etc. the novice site designer and then some have no idea what googlebot is thinking today. Yet Yahoo goes more by content and key words in there searches. I totally agree that all SE have to try there best to weed out the Spam, but this is taking a dampening effect on good sites in the same aspect. Which brings us back to the paid inclusion listings.

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The local results make sence to me, what I get is under phxrealestate the first match is has links directly to other pages of her site

FYI google still has more than twice the results of yahoo read this artical
http://vburton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/indexsize.html

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I would agree with this. I thought my opinion was bias since I have been breathing SEO for a while now. My coworkers, none who know anything about SEO are agreeing that google seems to be getting less and less relevant.

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Thats odd... I didnt see it until i noticed you said hit the search button a few times an BOOM! there is is...
And with no description or anything... just a odd like with a black text after is and then the domain under it...
I wonder.... Maybe a scripting error?

Glad it doesnt do it for San Diego.. but the local results suck!.. For Real Estate near San Diego you get:
a Hotel
A big bank mortgage company
and a General Serivces Department of the state ... Whatever that is....
It's NOT real estate.


Come on Google... Work correctly or I'm Putting you back in the box, returning you and getting a refund!

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