Comments on: Does Google favor its own? (BlogSpot)

By: SEO j0ny

SEO j0ny — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:51:59 +0000

Yeah, as much as I love Google, sometimes it’s hard to take them seriously as a “resource” when they so blatantly put their own products in front of everyone. And let’s not even talk “don’t be evil”…

By: Wanabidabida

Wanabidabida — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:45:00 +0000

that was true. i tried to post about friendster skin on my newly establshed blog.. for a newbie like i rank 12 on the serp.. not bad.

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:06:03 +0000

I just created a blogger account last week and made a post. Lumabas lang ang site ko sa google search engine after 2 days then ngayon, wala na ulit! Why oh why!!! Google have you failed me?

By: mick

mick — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:33:27 +0000

Perhaps google just trust blogger more because it has no broken links, perfect formatting and design perfection in their eyes.
My blogs always do better on google then on Yahoo or msn.

By: Caspian Graca Da Silva

Caspian Graca Da Silva — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:34:52 +0000

hey, well of course google will enter a direct video link from youtube on the google search, because that is part of their company, it’s fair enough in my opinion…

of course there are other public video databases, but there is always the chance of freudulent content, google’s mass of staff try to keep upto date on all content and make sure it’s correct and accurte, but the magority of that will be within it’s own database.

i don’t wanna cause a stir or anything but, google in general always keep in mind about the freedom of information, and it’s their main goal, even all the pirated content that is put on google, google got in a bit of trouble for all this, but they’ve been fighting to try and get videos of tv shows and movies on youtube for free (for us, using thier great skill at advertising, with out anoyence)

and video’s are only one example of what google does.

i wouldn’t compare google to microsoft, never, sure alot of microsoft’s staff are completly inocent of any branding and corporate sponsership, but there is a basis that staff have to work upon, and microsoft always force thier own premotion above the point of the product.

nice to read the blog, hope to hear from ya.

- Caspian Graca Da Silva

By: Cesar Noel

Cesar Noel — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:44:23 +0000

It’s not a surprise if Google favors their own products.

By: RJ

RJ — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:33:08 +0000

Wrong! Google Search does not favor any Blogspot, or Blogpots, blogshot or whatever! Gaining a good ranking on google search depends on the traffic your site is receiving, probably that guy’s old wordpress blog didn’t get so much traffic.

And speaking of traffic, your blog should be defined clearly in terms of keywords. I own a wordpress account, and by the Grace of God, it’s really getting a lot of hits because every post is being tagged accordingly.

Google is not favoring YouTube, it’s part of an upgraded feature of Google search that allows YouTube videos to be included in the search results. YouTube has the largest collection of videos.

Lesson: Use blogspot? NOPE! Wordpress is way better than Blogspot! Try it.

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By: CallCenterVet

CallCenterVet — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:45:54 +0000

It’s a rather obvious thing. You use google search… ofcourse their stuff would come out first. Resistance is futile!

By: Christian DeVera

Christian DeVera — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:59:21 +0000

If SEO matters to you, go with Blogger. If it doesn’t, go with Wordpress. If it sorta matters to you, create a mirror Blogger account that points to your main site.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:41:02 +0000

And now, Knol. Goodbye to independent blogs as informative sources?

By: nel animo

nel animo — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:53:12 +0000

google monopoly

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By: arpeelazaro

arpeelazaro — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:12:33 +0000

that’s why i’m sticking it out with blogspot. though not as many themes and features compared to wordpress, blogspot is easy to learn. maybe if they have a premium blogspot service, I would gladly upgrade.

By: Goe D

Goe D — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:05:43 +0000

You are right on pointing out that big “G” is prioritizing their own backyard first before his neighbors. This is not new to me, I’ve seen this happening to one of my website. For example, the website that I am developing (social site for filipino - digg like site) - I was getting index by Google and getting 8K last month but now I am getting 5K and most of them when you search for keyword “ebenta” you are getting youtube videos link from my site. But the sad this is the link is not from my site but from youtube - Sad so when you search for example “ebenta video” on google, you are getting bunch of video link from my site but none is pointing to the site. This is just an example.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:22:17 +0000

I guess for the Google-favoring-YouTube hypotheses, I think Google somewhat favors YouTube but not to the extent that people think they do. I guess people just really favor YouTube over Meta cafe, Revver, Vimeo, etc. that it seems Google overly favors YouTube. Agree? Disagree?

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:21:47 +0000

Search Google for “happy holidays from revver” for a counterexample. Or “minesweeper the movie”. (The result on the first is ironic.)

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:20:11 +0000

Here’s a counterexample: search Google for “happy holidays from revver”. It doesn’t return a YouTube video as the first result, but it ironically returns a Meta cafe video. Hehehe.

(Ack! Repost… Overly sensitive Akismet… tsk, tsk)