Do Blogs Spam Google Results? - Blogging News - Microdoc News: "Results of the Blog Test in Google
Of the 5,000 searches in Google we were rather surprised to find that only 1.7% or 85 searches obtained a blog in the top five search results positions, and only 2.1% of searches obtained a blog in the top ten -- 105 searches. Phil Wolf estimates there are approximately 3 million blogs worldwide and if we further estimate that each has about 50 webpages, there are about 150 million webpages that belong to blogs. Out of 3.8 billion webpages 150 million is about 3.9% of all pages in Google and blogs appear in the top ten results only 2.1% of the time. It seems to me that blogs are being under-represented and not over represented in Google.
In all of the tests, there were only 5 searches where I considered that blogs got in the way of really finding a webpage where better information could be obtained.
Conclusion
In using searches sampled from the AllTheWeb feed and then applying them to a search in Google, we found that Google does not appear to over represent blogs in search results. We found that only in 5 individual cases (or 0.1% of the total sample) that a blog was inappropriately placed and could have got in the way of an information seeker actually obtaining relevant results. "
posted by Jen @ 9:16 AM
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