What happened to the Organic Search Results in Google
by bosmol on November 18, 2009

If you have been searching through
Google lately then you would have noticed that the search results have become cluttered with
Google Advertisements instead of
organic search results. This is not true for all searchers as this feature is still in the development stage, but every once in a while you will get a page of results, where the first fold is full of
Google ads. This is another way for Google to monopolize on the search engine
business and is not good. It is scary knowing that Google can and is willing to move the organic listings to where they will receive significantly less traffic.
The first fold of the screen, where you want your website to appear has become saturated with sponsored results, rather than a mix of
organic and sponsored search engine results. This is not fair and leads us
search engine marketers to believe that we may have to focus in on ranking on other search engines not so cluttered with ads.
There are thousands of search engines on the web that are used on a daily basis, it’s just that the big 3 (
Google,
Yahoo, and
Bing) dominate the market, so that is all you hear about. There are even niche search engines that only provide results for a specific industry. By targeting smaller, niche search engines we can narrow down our target audience into people that are interested in your products/ services/ information.
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I searched this site by google. And I admit the marketing industry is on its peak with help of internet and emarketing. I will not go for any other deals that are offer by egnut seo
Yeah. I noticed that also. Google definitely has all controls on the results of your searches and by this sometimes PR doesn't matter anymore since the results are now clustered with ads and non-organic search results. I hope Google will fix this. Thanks a lot for sharing! By the way, great post here!