Google Search maybe smart but not so intelligent
Google Search is maybe smart but it is not so intelligent. Google Search is not so intelligent enough to recognize which blog entry is the original article and not the original one. Google Search allows itself to be fooled by some blogs and sites which were publishing articles that were copied from other blogs and sites.
I have written before that Google crawls and indexes the site or blog any time it wants. Google Search will do whatever it wants, whenever it wants to crawl and index your blogs and sites. Sometimes you may influence the search results but you cannot really play a game with Google Search. But once in a while, you might actually be able to “game” Google Search.
I cannot tell you how to do it though as I do not play that kind of game. But let me show you an example how other blogs and sites may have played a game with Google Search concerning crawling and indexing and even taking the top spot on the search results page.
On September 02, 2009, I wrote this blog entry, Inverness, the Mouth of the River Ness in Scotland at Sofie Hofmann dot com. Yesterday, I saw that Google Search crawled and indexed another blog entry with the same title but with a different URL. The content on that site was copied from my blog entry, Inverness, the Mouth of the River Ness in Scotland which was published at Sofie Hofmann dot com.
I was surprised that Google Search crawled and indexed the different URL faster than my blog entry which is actually the original source of what Google Search crawled and indexed yesterday.
I checked Google Search and found out that the blog entry with a different URL was number 1 on the first page using keywords “inverness mouth of the river ness” and my site Sofie Hofmann dot com, not even the blog entry, was on the fourth page. I also checked other keywords like “inverness mouth” and “inverness mouth river ness”. The other URL was number 2 and number 3 respectively on the first page. My site was on the fourth page and third page respectively but the blog entry itself was nowhere to be found.
Those were the search results as of yesterday, the last time I checked Google Search. It may change in the next few days though if Google Search will recognize that my blog entry has more value than the other one.
Then I checked Google Blog Search using keywords “inverness mouth of the river ness”, “inverness mouth river ness”, “inverness river ness”, and “inverness mouth”. I saw that my original blog entry was actually crawled and indexed by Google Blog Search on September 02, 2009, the same day when I published Inverness, the Mouth of the River Ness in Scotland at Sofie Hofmann dot com. My blog entry using the keywords that I already mentioned was number 1 on the first page. When I tried using the keywords “inverness scotland”, the blog entry was only number 4 on the first page.
What I was just blogging were the reasons why I say that Google Search is maybe smart but not so intelligent enough. I say that Google Blog Search is smarter and more intelligent than Google Search in recognizing which one is valuable having crawled and indexed the original article instead of the copied one. I just do not know if Google Blog Search lets itself to be fooled too by other blogs and sites where Google Search, in my opinion, failed big time.
