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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Are Viewers and Readers Changing Their Search Engine Preferences?

Online writers have been getting used to the Google search changes over the last couple of months. It seems like the top results from searches are mainly the ones paying for commercial placement. (Makes sense I guess, but do search engine users like that?)

I think people outside of the writing world are starting to see Google's changes as favoring commercial sites, and they are opting to use other search engines more.

I only say that because I did a tally of the details on my "not so sweet" page views yesterday afternoon (I know, not scientific if it's only one person's and not for the whole day) and I had 25 views coming from Goog;e searches and 30 views coming from Yahoo, Bing, and Ask.

Google had the most before I combined the other three, but in the past they were, almost always, the vast majority coming from Google.

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