Comments on: Search Engine Watch site search needs work http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/07/search-engine-watch-site-search-needs-work.html SEO Consulting, In-House SEO Training, Social Media Insights Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:13:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Laura Mandzok http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/07/search-engine-watch-site-search-needs-work.html/comment-page-1#comment-68 Laura Mandzok Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:57:36 +0000 http://searchenginetigers.com/2007/07/search-engine-watch-site-search-needs-work.html#comment-68 Well, I guess that the old saying still holds true... The cobbler's children are the last to get their shoes. Great catch Simon. Let me also let your readers know about an interesting conundrum I found when searching for book titles in Google the other day. A search for the book title "A Briefer History of Time" not only yielded a number one ranking for the book through Google's own books.google.com - with a nice little graphic of the book cover. I also noticed a little further down the page a second listing - pointing to the exact same page - sans book cover graphic. Other searches for other book titles yielded similar results, but the second listing did not always make it to page one. Is Google stacking the deck in its own favor? Well, I guess that the old saying still holds true… The cobbler’s children are the last to get their shoes. Great catch Simon.

Let me also let your readers know about an interesting conundrum I found when searching for book titles in Google the other day. A search for the book title “A Briefer History of Time” not only yielded a number one ranking for the book through Google’s own books.google.com – with a nice little graphic of the book cover.

I also noticed a little further down the page a second listing – pointing to the exact same page – sans book cover graphic.

Other searches for other book titles yielded similar results, but the second listing did not always make it to page one.

Is Google stacking the deck in its own favor?

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