Does Google favor its own? (BlogSpot)

I used to be a complete Google fan, but with the recent dubious Google tantrums, it made me hope for other competitors such as Yahoo and MSN for their services to go truly go head to head with the Big G.

Google, again, it has always been google. It’s very biased.

There is a great possibility that Google favors its own (e.g. blogger and youtube) but assuming this trend continue, it’ll be a problem with Google in the long run.

What makes Google successful is the quality or relevant results they return to their users. Should they decide to mess up with their user oriented system, users might as well look for other more credible search engines.

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Agree with you.

Google has a PageRank of 10, hahaha. It could be usual reaction of a big company, to favor its own.

Just being the devil’s advocate here.

1. It’s possible that the other video websites are just not as SEO-friendly?

2. The vast majority of people link to YouTube videos anyway so YouTube gets the link juice.

3. You can complain against Yahoo! too for preferential treatment of Flickr photos in their Image search.

4. It’s quite possible that Blogger blogs are just SEO-optimized for Google (like having direct pinging capabilities, auto sitemaps, etc.)

On the other hand:

1. Even if Google returns results from Revver, etc., it will still show video thumbnails for YouTube results. This is arguably unfair, but this is useful to the users. Other video sites should probably have SEO-friendly video thumbnails.

so who’s willing to fund an antitrust suit against Google ? Preferably with adsense money :)

i told you its the darkside

kung napapansin din ninyo. mas madaling ma-index yung mga post sa newly created blogger account compared sa content ng paid hosting na website.

If you look at it at a business perspective, it does favor its own. Google is a company, a business. Why should it highlight results from competitors? That would be like giving profit to competitors on a silver platter. They’re probably just protecting their assets and profit.

But then, I think another good question to ask based on this is the credibility of the results. Makes you wonder if Google is still a good measure of a site’s authority on a subject, doesn’t it? Wouldn’t it also make it easier for spam blogs to rule the Google SERPs? They would be able to rank higher than established blogs not on Blogger just because they used blog platform that Google owns.

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.

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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.

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.

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. :P

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

– Caspian Graca Da Silva

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?

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”…

It’s fair I think. I’m not an anti WordPress or what. Heto pa pansin ko, lakas ng algo ng blogger. Kahit may nauna na nagpost sa akin na blog site with the same content tapos hindi blogspot gamit nya, una pa rin ako sa engine nila. Tapos nagbigay pa ng pr 3 yung google sakin in 2 months. Nakakaloka! Buti na lang nag CD-blogspot ako hehe

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What does a fat topic got something to do with google. ^^^. They really are in favor of blogspot I should have chosen blogspot than wordpress.

While you need to balance everything if you choose Blogger then, it’s fine do your SEO techniques like with WordPress.

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