Google Day Questions?

[mike]

I'll be in Mountain View next week for this Google Media Day thing. We have several pretty good questions in this thread already, but I wanted to give it another push before I start making notes for the trip. What would YOU ask Google?

Here's a rundown of the event by the way:

"Speakers will include Eric Schmidt plus a number of executives from our technology, sales, corporate and international teams. Come armed with your best questions, and get the latest update from Google."

As such, I figure you guys might have all kinds of interesting questions you might want to ask... so let's hear 'em.

You can reply to this thread, zap a private message, or shoot me an email (mike.ientry@gmail.com).

So, what do you want to ask Google?

[incrediblehelp]

Is PR your biggest joke on mankind?

Why don't you give the website owners of the world more feedback, right or wrong?

What is the future of Google search as it it applies to relevancy? What improvements are you making to Google search to make it more relevant? Can relevancy still exist without heavy algo weighting on back links?

How can you stop click fraud better? Why do you count double clicks?

Is their absolutely any connection to the Google algo if websites are using AdWords or AdSense?

It seems with the recent acquisition of Ori Allon search engine and other sneak peeks (Google SERPs with left navi green bars) recently leaked, Google is looking to bring more of the websites content on the Google web property, SERPs. Why?

Can Jaan Kanellis get a t-shirt?

[davidmg]

Mike ask them why my PPC with adwords gives a high count on a special page and then adsense on that page gives a lower count on page views. Thanks

[Grinler]

How about answers as to when all the sites who have had ongoing issues (prob due to canonocolization issues -sp?) since big daddy?

Problems where their pages were dropped, they are constantly indexed but no new material gets added to the index, etc.

[Grinler]

How about answers as to when all the sites who have had ongoing issues (prob due to canonocolization issues -sp?) since big daddy?

Problems where their pages were dropped, they are constantly indexed but no new material gets added to the index, etc.

[Irishjim]

Thanks... what a great offer.

Here are my thus-far unvoiced fears and questions:

1) Is the increasing popularity of RSS feeds going to run afoul of the "anti-scraper" mentality of BigDaddy? In particular, when multiple sites put up the same RSS feed because it's good news for their visitors will Big Daddy see this as "scraped" content and uncoil the whip?

2) Is Google beginning to fear the results of their "lag time" on updating their search results for new content on sites?

At present, MSN far out-performs them on new content. When the public starts to figure this out, Google may be found out to be the "lesser" search engine.


3)Is the new algorithm out of (I think New Zealand) that is expected to be incorporated by Google next year going to violate copyright laws.

It's my understanding this new bot will be able to pull content out of a web site and display it on a search result. This will keep visitors away from information sites and disallow any "residual sales" on sites that originally display the info.

(follow-up question) Is this going to force a full-scale reaction to Google by webmasters who will block Google's bots?

Thanks for the chance to give the input. Can you tell I'm a reporter?

[Irishjim]

By the way, I LOVE Incredible's first question. Still laughing here.

[murphypj]

(1) Are Google arbitrarily changing SERPs to reflect the geographic location of sites, regardless of content and relevance?

My site has retained it's #1 positions, held for some years, for relevant search terms if I use www.google.ie, but has dropped steadily in the past few weeks to #10 if I use Google.com - even though the only 'Irish' connection is the .ie domain name in my URL ( www.iol.ie/~murphypj ).

Localisation is fine for websites which are supplementary to 'bricks and mortar' businesses, but many sites have only online content, of international interest, and would appear to be being 'scored down' for google.com searches because they are not US based. This deprives the site owner of interested visitors, and gives searchers a blinkered view of the best available content on their subject of search.

I'm proud to be Irish, but I was also proud to be receiving over 4,000 US visitors to my site daily.
What was wrong with the 'search the web' / 'pages from {my country} option?

I know from previous posts here and on other forums that many others are similarly aggrieved.

(2) Do Google intend to expand on the practice of placing results from their image searches at the top of SERPs ?
( see search for: guitar chords ). Are these sites paying for placement? If not why give preferential placement to an image link over sites which have presumably earned their top placings by virtue of their content, and the 'white hat' optimisation generated by the blood sweat & tears of a hard-working webmaster?

If these are paid placements, they should be clearly shown as such.

Many thanks for the opportunity to unburden!

P.J. Murphy

[mishj]

1) What plans do you have for avoiding Florida updates and the like in the future? I.E. ensuring that people's websites dont suddenly disappear from the top of search results without any warning? Yahoo! appears to manage it fine, so why cant Google?

2) What plans do you have for avoiding Click Fraud in the future? It seems that many websites are told by Adsense that they get a lot more views than they get on Overture (Yahoo! Search Marketing) and yet they dont see any benefit from those views?

3) Does Google have plans to do something like Yahoo! myWeb 2.0? It seems that this product (now in beta) will lead to a great many more relevant search results and better advertising hits when this comes out of beta

4) Does Google plan to go "open platform" with its desktop tools or does it plan to go with Microsoft gadgets and therefore be tied into the Windows platforms?

5) Does Google plan to offer a client side tool for manipulating its web apis like Yahoo! Konfabulator? Konfabulator looks like it will be excellent now Yahoo! owns it - once it has full security in place etc.

6) How far is Google planning to take "tags" and Web 2 technologies? Yahoo! myWeb 2.0 uses tags for an excellent way of improving search results, and search related advertising and Yahoo! Flickr seems to be the way forward for photo sites for example.. Is Google going to follow suit?

[bluebinge]

I like all the questions, so I thought I would think "out of the box".
Here I go: I like the reporters style, so I think I will try....

Do you see any plans for helping flash sites out in the future?
Do site listed high on your other search categories including, image, groups,news, etc have any influences
on content and if not do you see something to this nature in the furure?

Well I hope it isn't to foolish of questions, but i was always taught "no question is a bad one."