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	<title>Comments on: Open Letter to Google &#8211; Is Google Broken?</title>
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	<description>The inside scoop on the world of sex toys from Richard Longhurst, co-founder of LoveHoney.co.uk</description>
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		<title>By: Jenna</title>
		<link>http://sextoysinsider.com/uncategorized/open-letter-to-google-is-google-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-72</link>
		<dc:creator>Jenna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Can you say that Richard? Oh you just did ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can you say that Richard? Oh you just did <img src='http://sextoysinsider.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
		<link>http://sextoysinsider.com/uncategorized/open-letter-to-google-is-google-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-71</link>
		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Google is making it interesting, that&#039;s for sure -- would it be a conspiracy theory to suggest that they&#039;re doing it just to increase their AdWords revenue at Christmas? ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google is making it interesting, that&#8217;s for sure &#8212; would it be a conspiracy theory to suggest that they&#8217;re doing it just to increase their AdWords revenue at Christmas? <img src='http://sextoysinsider.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Jenna</title>
		<link>http://sextoysinsider.com/uncategorized/open-letter-to-google-is-google-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-70</link>
		<dc:creator>Jenna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>IMHO, Google is broken (well at least for these particular terms). Ok Ok great, Google is trying to provide a varied set of results for searches; however, in this case I think they have failed, not necessarily in providing variety, but relevancy.

&lt;blockquote&gt;As part of this, I&#039;m guessing that you&#039;ve tweaked up your &#039;authority site&#039; filter, so that if an authority site has a page about a keyword, then it will rank higher than a smaller non-authority site that is dedicated to that topic.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Richard I agree. Anybody that knows anything about Search Engine Marketing will tell you of the importance of authority on the web, but there must come a point when authority shouldn&#039;t be used in place of relevancy right? Well I think we&#039;ve reached it!

Lets take a wild guess, what&#039;s in the minds of searchers as they &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&amp;rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-43%2CGGLJ%3Aen&amp;q=sex+toys&amp;btnG=Search&amp;meta=&quot; title=&quot;Google search for sex toys&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;search for sex toys&lt;/a&gt;? Well ok my guess is that it would be, in the majority of cases, with an intent to purchase (or maybe I&#039;m just biased and people really do want to see a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Drugs_busts_and_sex_toys&quot; title=&quot;one second snippet&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;one second video snippet of one&lt;/a&gt;.

In all honesty, &lt;a href=&quot;http://seoblackhat.com/2006/11/21/free-porn/&quot; title=&quot;dude, where&#039;s my porn&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;news about this&lt;/a&gt; change is thin on the ground leaving most site owners baffled. Perhaps it&#039;s temporary, or pehaps it&#039;s here to stay like MSN&#039;s skewed results. Then again, maybe this goes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/is-google-pushing-a-republican-agenda-and-burying-internet-porn/&quot; title=&quot;Google&#039;s republican agenda&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;deeper than we think&lt;/a&gt;!

You had better find that Adwords login Richard!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>IMHO, Google is broken (well at least for these particular terms). Ok Ok great, Google is trying to provide a varied set of results for searches; however, in this case I think they have failed, not necessarily in providing variety, but relevancy.</p>
<blockquote><p>As part of this, I&#8217;m guessing that you&#8217;ve tweaked up your &#8216;authority site&#8217; filter, so that if an authority site has a page about a keyword, then it will rank higher than a smaller non-authority site that is dedicated to that topic.</p></blockquote>
<p>Richard I agree. Anybody that knows anything about Search Engine Marketing will tell you of the importance of authority on the web, but there must come a point when authority shouldn&#8217;t be used in place of relevancy right? Well I think we&#8217;ve reached it!</p>
<p>Lets take a wild guess, what&#8217;s in the minds of searchers as they <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&amp;rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-43%2CGGLJ%3Aen&amp;q=sex+toys&amp;btnG=Search&amp;meta=" title="Google search for sex toys" rel="nofollow">search for sex toys</a>? Well ok my guess is that it would be, in the majority of cases, with an intent to purchase (or maybe I&#8217;m just biased and people really do want to see a <a href="http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Drugs_busts_and_sex_toys" title="one second snippet" rel="nofollow">one second video snippet of one</a>.</p>
<p>In all honesty, <a href="http://seoblackhat.com/2006/11/21/free-porn/" title="dude, where's my porn" rel="nofollow">news about this</a> change is thin on the ground leaving most site owners baffled. Perhaps it&#8217;s temporary, or pehaps it&#8217;s here to stay like MSN&#8217;s skewed results. Then again, maybe this goes <a href="http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/is-google-pushing-a-republican-agenda-and-burying-internet-porn/" title="Google's republican agenda" rel="nofollow">deeper than we think</a>!</p>
<p>You had better find that Adwords login Richard!</p>
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