Don’t believe me? Try a search for ‘search engine’ on … Google.
That’s right, it returns Google as the 7th result and the 6th search engine. And look at the snippet! Would it kill Google to craft a decent meta description?
In some ways it’s nice to see that Google isn’t optimizing and hasn’t manually altered the results in their favor. Yet, ‘search engine’ seems like a valuable term.
That’s over 4 million global monthly searches! Even on exact match you get nearly 400,000.
Yahoo seems to get it, putting themselves at the top of a ‘search engine’ query on Yahoo. I’m guessing that’s a non-algorithmic result. Sure it seems like a blatant promotion but I understand the reasoning.
Nevermind the oddity of searching for a search engine with a search engine. Search is Google’s business and, as such, it should want to be the top result for the term.
Even from a search quality perspective, are those the best results for the term ‘search engine’?
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Comments About Google is the 6th Ranked Search Engine
// 3 comments so far.
Borellus // June 01st 2009
Why would anybody want to search for “Google” on Google?
I think this may be the main reason it isn’t at the top.
I do agree about the meta description though, very unprofessional.
Brian // June 01st 2009
Well google may be seventh on there own site it is ranked #1 on http://alexa.com. You can even compare 3 sites at a time. by going here: http://alexa.com/ or see the top 500 sites here: http://alexa.com/topsites, and google is #1
rmpbklyn // June 02nd 2009
alexa, have not used it in years- literaly like 5yrs or so
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