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✨ "🎉 Big news! Google Search has officially dropped indented search results from its listings. No more indentations under the main result. It may impact click-through rates, but let's see. The search game just got more interesting! 🚀 #GoogleSearch #SearchEngineLand" 💬 Google has ceased displaying indented search results in its listings. This change, implemented a few weeks ago, was prompted by the belief that indented results were not as helpful as they had been in the past. However, Google's diversity system still limits the number of results from the same site displayed on the first page. While this change shouldn't affect how often your content is shown in search results, its impact on click-through rates remains uncertain.

Search is like....really difficult!!! Or let me rephrase.... Running a successful search ENGINE is really difficult. It's hard to compete with The Big G. They have over 90% market share. Your choices in most of the world come down to either Google or Bing. Unless you're in mainland China, it's Baidu. And in Russia it's Yandex. For sourcers, having a limited view of the world (one or two search engines) can frustrating. It would be great if more search engines were created. I don't count other engines that use the same index as Google or Bing, like DuckDuckGo. Like this article states: True search engines have their own search algorithms, index database, search relevancy, data storage, application servers, and we crawlers. This takes a lot of time and money, but may be necessary to avoid a singular view of the world. https://lnkd.in/gzjgBNeS

Quality beats quantity. Bing and Yahoo gained market share and search quality concerns for Google may have contributed to the shift. #googlesearch #searchengine

Great article on what makes a good search engine and how come we never heard of Neeva, a short lived search engine started by a few ex Googlers. Per article, there’s a philosophical question that can help us define a good search engine: “what is a good web page?”

"Building a search engine is hard. Building one better than Google is even harder." This article discusses the efforts of Neeva, a search engine created by ex-Google employees, to challenge Google's dominance in the search market. Despite building a faster, simpler, and ad-free search engine, Neeva struggled to gain traction and eventually shut down. The article explores the challenges of building a search engine, the complexities of balancing speed, cost, and quality, and the difficulties in convincing users to switch from default options. تناقش هذه المقالة جهود "Neeva"، وهو محرك بحث تم إنشاؤه من قبل موظفين سابقين في Google، لتحدي الهيمنة التي تمتلكها Google في سوق محركات البحث .. وعلى الرغم من بناء محرك بحث أسرع وأبسط وخالٍ من الإعلانات، واجهت "Neeva" صعوبات عدة في جذب الاهتمام وأغلقت في النهاية. https://lnkd.in/dAkuQx6Y

"It's a long-stated and well-earned cliche in the tech industry that people don't change their default settings." If I had known about Neeva's built-from-the-ground-up search engine, I most certainly would have given it a try. There's currently just Google and Bing (basically everything else is built off of Bing, including DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, etc.). Neeva seemed to have offered a promising competing search product to Google's, one without ads and without zero-click content taken directly from the results that power it. SEO and the world of search, even search engines on websites and social media, are under the shadow of Google and its dominance in our experience of how we access, use, and even think about the internet. I always root for search alternatives for many reasons, but this article gives an interesting breakdown how an alternative may just never arise (aside from Bing).

Google vs Bing vs Yahoo Comparison and Review. Take a look at our Google, Bing and Yahoo Comparison and review and pick the best one for your needs! https://lnkd.in/giz3A4WW #smallbusiness #onlinemarketing

Fairly long but fascinating read on what it really takes to try to build a search engine that can compete with Google. Hint: technically you might succeed, but commercially you're starting $14 billion in the hole. #searchengines #google #neeva

The biggest thing from Google Search antitrust trial that no one is talking about. There have been massive revelations coming out from this trial on how Google has continued to improve its search marketing share as well as how it ranks websites. One interesting that could really shake things up would be the possibility of Google no longer being the default search engine on many web browsers. Google currently has a 91.55% search market share. So, this would be huge for any other search engine. Information shared from the court cases said, "Google’s default status blocks its competitors from up to half of all search queries carried out in the US. The witness then also went on to say: "Whinston suggested that 33% of US searches always go to the default engine, which means a competitor search engine would only be able to garner around 17% of US search traffic, reports" What's interesting about the second quote is that I remember seeing someone mention that "Google" is one of the top 5 searchs for Bing. So, even if people don't have Google as a default search engine, people still prefer it if say, you're on Bing. It will be interesting to see how things play out and if there will be a shakeup in the search engine market share. See the first comment for quote credits. #seo

I think it's a legitimate argument that Google has effectively set the browser and search engine industries back a number of years at this point. And not because they're a superior product. Don't believe me? Give the Arc Browser a try. Or take a look at this piece that digs into why new search engines have such a difficult time entering the market and competing fairly. #Google #SearchEngines #Browser https://lnkd.in/g2B7KfwT