Good visualization. Worth a look.
http://blog.jitbit.com/2012/09/googles-serp-is-only-25-serp.html
Wow, that's pretty damning, didn't realize it was that low.
"The company is obviously interested in people clicking more ADs (in fact, I believe that's also the true reason behind "Penguin" and "Panda") "
Makes sense, question is how long will Joe Sixpack keep using G with the current lack of SERP quality.
This is why I changed my user stylesheet to highlight ads. Between the preponderance of ads and the fact that Google has made the background color on ads so close that I couldn't tell them apart on a typical LCD, I was clicking ads all the time when I wanted organic.
They've gone so far with this that I was "forced" to force the stylesheet to make ads blatant.
Quote from: ergophobe on September 06, 2012, 04:23:55 AMThis is why I changed my user stylesheet to highlight ads.
Do you actually maintain
User Stylesheets for all your browsers? I used to do that with Opera a bit, but haven't been bothered in years. I remember that you could do this with different browsers as well, but I'd hate to have to maintain multiple files.
Adblock nukes them all.
Quote from: bill on September 06, 2012, 06:28:58 AM
Do you actually maintain User Stylesheets for all your browsers?
No, only for my "utility" browsers, not my "testing" browsers. I am pretty much never in IE, Safari or Opera unless I'm testing something of my own, so I'm not typically on Google at all with them, thus no need for user stylesheets.
PS - I only started doing this when Google changed the background color on ads to be indistinguishable from organic results.