Comments on: SEO Test: Default Personalized Search is a Myth – It Doesn’t Work

By: jack

jack — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:34:26 +0000

Thanks for sharing your testing idea! Great illustrations and research.Great hypothesis, method, and documentation for your final conclusion.Good work.Keep it up.

By: niels

niels — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:50:58 +0000

What seemed to be an interesting article has turned into a personal feud about the term empirical and the the scientific relevance of it.
I personally found it quite interesting in what onreact has posted here and even though his findings might not be 100% waterproof it gave me food for thought and I will definitely look into it more.

Thanks!

By: anon

anon — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:34:02 +0000

I’ve done something similar to your test and found Personalized search has no influence in ranking links! But I’ve not taken this as confirmation as I believe there should be something I should have missed! And now it’s really great to know that there is no worry with Google’s personalized search! I always ask my team guys to remove personalized search in their browsers. But your research has cleared my confusions. Thanks for sharing!

By: khayevic

khayevic — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:55:22 +0000

I am new at this online business but I am sure of one thing…in order to have a valid or appropriate conclusion one should do series of tests and different test subjects.
It’s just a thought. Who am I to tell you, you are the pro and I am just browsing.

By: yujinha

yujinha — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:20:16 +0000

I think each person will experience differently, some may experience it, but some others may not experience

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:06:40 +0000

Thanks for sharing your testing idea! I sure learned a couple of new things to apply on my own site.

By: John

John — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:32:24 +0000

Most probably Google guys know what they are doing with this new personalized search updates. Hope that your test is true because for my “new” sites wouldn’t be so good for strong implementation of new type of personalized search.Nice post!

By: SEOWebHelp

SEOWebHelp — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:53:16 +0000

Great illustrations and research.
Great hypothesis, method, and documentation for your final conclusion.

By: The Aleksandar

The Aleksandar — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:02:48 +0000

I don’t see the reasons for attacking @onreact regading post nider it’s title. On contrary, I see those testing as valuable in understanding Google personalized more. Now we see it isn’t so simple and that is good. In some of previous posts here on blog it was a presuption that Google personalized can make search process boring and this test give us reason to belive it will not be so boring in that way. And that SEO will take it’s place in future, too.

By: John

John — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:28:27 +0000

@ Barry,
I comefrom a country and live in a remote part at that where there are no specialist doctors.
So, my son who is 9 years now and my wife who is around 35 years always go to the Homeo Doctor and don’t try Alopathy unless it is too serious or urgent.
I am sorry – Homeopathy is a real gem of medicinal discipline.

@onreact – I amno SEO expert or involved in the profession – but frequent on most SEO blogs frequently – read posts – like a journeyman.

I have been hearing about this Google’s claim for almost 2 years – some call it personalized search and some like to call it behavioral search!
Although I am not an SEO – I do try to work on my own sites/blogs and have seen success more than failures. Towards, my working, I do a lot of work on SERP results of my targeted keywords – but never noticed any improvement (noticed decline only) on my results.

I see SEL @ 11 also – so it was not your personalized search that it improved your result – but it has been a natural fluctuation instead.