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Google Suggest(s), A New Reputation Management Nightmare
Searching News Source: http://www.martinbowling.com
Published: Aug 27, 2008 - 06:55 pm
Story Found By: tonyadam 2061 Days ago
Category: Searching
Martin Bowling writes about Google Suggest(s) and the reputation management nightmare it could create.
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from bbcarter 2061 Days ago #
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Hilarious!

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from cre8pc 2061 Days ago #
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Interesting.  I haven’t been researching this yet....but it looks like Google has two Top Ten results - traditional SERPs and the Suggested.  The Suggested are based on how many times those keywords were found?  If so, it’s a Reputation Management tool that can work both ways, to both rip apart or promote.There’s a difference between how many pages are linked to and clicked (algo) and how many times engines simply find keywords.  What I wonder about is whether Google would take an increase in clicks from the Suggested pile and feed them into basic SERPS, thinking they’re credible clicks.Too easy to manipulate this if so.

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from MiriamEllis 2061 Days ago #
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A Must-Read followup to Michael Jensen’s post. Kim, yes - 2 SERPs. Exactly.Miriam

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from martinbowling 2061 Days ago #
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Just sphunn my own post and it felt a little dirty :) haha j/kGlad that everyone is finding the content useful, I am currently researching the follow up on the how’s & why’s hopefully I can get it posted soon!

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from onreact 2061 Days ago #
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Ouch, good point Martin.

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from bbcarter 2061 Days ago #
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Ya let me know when you figure it out because there are some words that should be semantically proximate to me that aren’t in Google for some weird reason, like sexy, cool, awesome, and hilarious.

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from yojpotter2 2056 Days ago #
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This new features on Google’s search query is a bit scary..I just hope our company don’t have lots of negative suggestions result pages.

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