Comments on: The Image of Leadership

By: Mike King

Mike King — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:46:27 +0000

I agree with the example listed of Google’s ability to adapt this kind of freely demanded and semantic search. They have enabled more features within a single search than probably the rest of the search engines combined.

By: Future wealth

Future wealth — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:58:02 +0000

Google is in top for their searches compared to all other search engines. They are doing their part correctly. They can answer our questions at any time. Hats off to Google!!!

By: GearModa

GearModa — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:57:12 +0000

Google never ceases to amaze me, I think that although they are involved in many different sectors, I think they do the right thing in pushing continued innovation and improvement i whatever they involve themselves in.

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:52:28 +0000

Except that Amazon doesn’t give you anything for free.

By: Prevodi

Prevodi — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:00:45 +0000

Google is really great. I believe the best part is yet still to come. In the last couple of years Google increased the number o services and is going to continue this way. Amazon is probably worth a mention here too.

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:38:50 +0000

No one believes Google, Dave. But believing has nothing to do with the fact that, at least in search, they are leaders.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:04:21 +0000

Don’t believe Google, they have their fingers in many pies.

By: SEO GTA

SEO GTA — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:09:52 +0000

Looking to how adsense work; showing ads based on keywords in Adwords

Looking also the tilde modifier
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enCA261CA261&q=~job&btnG=Search

All shows that Google can semantically analyze content, so why not to use this in the SERP

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:55:16 +0000

I think you miss the point of the article, BSWD. I am not trying to teach people how to become leaders – I am just reproaching the lack of respect and grace to some who think they are leaders. Roger fully got my point. Google knows how to play leader.

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:53:10 +0000

You are right, Rob. I expect the advocates of the “semantic search engines” will argue that Google still delivers results based on keywords. Their rationality will be: the question divided into keywords that are then sent to Google’s “inferior” bots – the bots analyze the keywords and return results which are actually not based on the real “meaning” of the question. In short: Google does not “understand” the question – it just approximates it.

For the users, the algorithms are irrelevant. The results matter and Google does offer the most relevant results – keywords or no keywords.

To be honest I now “ask” Google whenever I need to find something. For example: “how do cigarettes harm our health?” delivers very relevant results, and all other questions for that matter. If I compare with the “semantic” search engines, honestly… I see no difference.

For me a semantic search engine should be able to “answer back” and not to deliver a list of links with highlighted text that matches my query.