Comments on: The Power of Power Searchers

By: fedupwithfeds Deers & Wolfs by SAL

fedupwithfeds Deers & Wolfs by SAL — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:09:13 +0000

exposed parties to be revealed and properly recognized for their wrong doings malicious acts, greed, and absolute disregard for what I would like to call JUSTICE> I invite all hackers all the world to take a look at what this country calls fair. How Media, Politics, and government would play with anyone to this extent sickens me! This is for the saints out there for my Best Friend SA sitting in a cell. I love you always. Corruption is an evil thing. Yet I have still have faith that those who have interfered and steered people the wrong way will now not later but now..... do whats right.
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By: Chris Mahnken

Chris Mahnken — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:10:39 +0000

I too am a huge power searcher, with probably 50 searches on a slow day. One old Altavista key word that I seriously miss is "NEAR" which I would use regularly to eliminate random false positives.

On the clicking ads point, yes. I am acutally amazed at how frequently one of the sites on the sidebar is one that I want to visit, and when a site shows up on both the ad bar and the search results, I usually click the ad bar, both to support Google, and to let the company in question know that the Google ad worked.

But certainly, better search syntax and a way to search in results would be nice.

By: Salman Khan

Salman Khan — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:53:02 +0000

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By: Sean David Baylis

Sean David Baylis — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:43:47 +0000

I search alot, mostly on Google. I rarely click the ads.

By: BungeeBones.com

BungeeBones.com — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:31:33 +0000

I am developing a combination link exchange/directory where I use the crumb trail resulting from menu selections as a search query. in may not be all that popular but it does expose users to the idea of "power search" and expanding queries to minimize and fine tune the results.

From this idea of creating a query from previous selections I am thinking that some sort of mark up language for search queries is in order. For example with a markup language I could send each item of a query with a different priority. I probably could easily use it to combine search terms in groups. If nested together, only a small number of search engine query tags could provide numerous possible ranking and relations among the search terms, which then be used in search queries to produce better search results (and/or sponsored link displays).

By: Adido Web Design

Adido Web Design — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:23:49 +0000

The original premise of the paid listings was to introduce an element of 'credibility' to the results, I thought? (I've read the book John but it was a few years ago) Back in the day spam was everywhere and introducing a monetary element would improve the results.

I would have thought that Google would WANT the power searchers to stay and would offer better tools to us 20-a-dayers (inc myself). By allowing us to get 'into' the results more, we will use the service more. If they allow us play with the results more then we might actually click on the ads more?

BTW, I don't think it's power users who don't click on PPC, I did a straw poll at a talk recently and NO ONE in a room of 30 people admitted to clicking on ads (well not knowingly).

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:33:35 +0000

1) Why can’t “power searchers” just use the Advanced Search feature — ???
2) I too rarely click on the sponsored links, but I think it would be a bit foolhardy to block them entirely (like Jeff mentioned he does) because the fact of the matter is, sometimes the sponsored links — perhaps not all that often, but sometimes nonetheless — ofter the EXACT thing I was looking for… i.e. once in a while they are actually much more relevant than the organic results. And IMHO THAT’S why Google is a $200B company.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:42:03 +0000

I think Mahalo is going for the smaller market of people who search 1-5 times a day, so I think it’s ok if Google wants to cater to us power searchers. Ultimately it’d be nice to have the best of both worlds – powerful search plus trustable (i.e. human influenced without alterior motives) and usable answers.

By: zwe

zwe — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 01:27:27 +0000

something tells me they figure this in .. as a stockholder im content with their decision trees. could care less about us "power searchers" if we dont click on revenue while mom does. those same 10 yrs that same 10 results has sergey and larry lookin pretty smart. There are many other search engines for guys like you that are seeking "smarter" more semantic or enriched search experience.. they presented at your conference.. and many many more.. why do you still use the commercial machine? i bet because its still the most reliable
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By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:28:13 +0000

I have sufficient Firefox arsenal that prevents me from seeing any ads. I don't click on sponsored links. I search a lot. I'm their worst nightmare.