Google tweak winners
By Sumir Singh

Last week, Google announced major tweaks to its search engine that impacted roughly 35 percent of all searches to better determine the most relevant results.

Search Metrics has published a detailed list of the winners and losers of one of the most important change made to the Google Search algorithm in recent years.  According to Search Metrics, there were many winners and only a few losers.

Many of the sites read by Techies like Wikiquote, Techcrunch, Playstation, Opera, Huffington Post, AllthingsD, Engadget, and Java-gaming had huge wins in the new SEO Visibility rankings.

To Google’s credit, their own blogging platform Blogger.com has seen a SEO Visibility downgrade of as much as 20 percent.  Anandtech saw a SEO downgrade of as much as 24 percent.

 
(Techgoss had published the following on Nov 4, 2011)

Google search tweaked
By Sumir Singh

Google has announced major tweaks to its search engine that impacts roughly 35 percent of all searches to better determine the most relevant results

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Search results, like warm cookies right out of the oven or cool refreshing fruit on a hot summer’s day, are best when they’re fresh. Even if you don’t specify it in your search, you probably want search results that are relevant and recent.

If I search for [Olympics], I probably want information about next summer’s upcoming Olympics, not the 1900 Summer Olympics (the only time my favorite sport, cricket, was played). Google Search uses a freshness algorithm, designed to give you the most up-to-date results, so even when I just type [olympics] without specifying 2012, I still find what I’m looking for.
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This news was presented by Google Fellow Amit Singhal and uses a cricketing analogy which may be Greek to some Americans.