Thread: Do you guys think that Google Penguin actually works?

If you asked me, Google's most recent Penguin update is a total failure.

That is if we're going to judge it by how they presented it. According to Google, the purpose for this algorithm was to return better or higher quality search queries. For example let's Google "smoke shop Fort Lauderdale" this search returned three solid pages of directories, paid links and link farms. , I have no idea what Google means by quality of search but when I am looking for "a smoke shop in Fort Lauderdale", I want a website for a smoke shop in Fort Lauderdale not a link farm, a page full of ads or a paid for ranking directory.

I think that Google should add a tab on the top where that image, maps, and shopping options are called directories.

What I see as a result of the latest Google Penguin updates is small businesses pressure into buying adWords advertising campaigns because their websites have been pushed back so far down that their online presence is irrelevant.

Opinions any one...?

Is this the same result page that you see: https://www.google.com/search?q=smok...ient=firefox-a

I am up 95 a ways from you. What you see in search is not always what others see. From these results it looks like Sunrise Smokeshop is doing the best job with social media.

Well, I understand the whole thing about geo-related search, it is for this reason I have something like seven different browsers installed on my machine. For SERP I primarily use Maxthor in private mode with geo-identity turned off. Sometimes I may even check via remote desktop at my server in Ohio. Also when running IBP top 10 tool you get similar results.

My question has more to do with consensus (what are others that do this for living experiencing?) rather than the search itself. I am seeing a huge surge of directories come up in SERP since the Penguin October update. As I mentioned before I find this hypocritical since there is no quality in any of this websites.

Sorry for the lecture, I did not know you well enough and many people think that the search results that they see are 'the search results'. I do agree that many of Google's 'improvements' do not improve the quality of search for me. When I do a search I want new information, not what Google thinks I might want to see.

Also, I don't much care for their targeting of the Adsense ads that they show me. If I go to a site and they have ads in inventory they keep serving those ads to me. They might do better by serving me competitors ads instead (something that I may not already know about). What I would really prefer would be ads that relate to the content on the site I am visiting, like they used to do.

100% agree!

I think many of their updates are very bad considering many phds people there. I also wrote about it and how they manipulate people as well...

I totally agree with Wink as well about adsense, it is really stupid to show same ads all the time.
For example I'm into RC cars and I buy few things here and there, after that they still showing me same ads and products I already bought.

Yes it is true. Recently just because of penguin effect my friend website rank fall down drastically. ...