starbearer Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 This was a regular search for a regular (i.e. not uncommon or ambiguous) search item, an Octopus While I'd normally expect search engines to throw up links which explain what an Octopus is, as that would be the more common ( and sane) answer, the results I saw with Google were a bit baffling. While Bing gave an expected search result, with a wiki link to an Octopus and definitions of an Octopus etc.,there was no such link to an Octopus anywhere on Google. Isn't this a bit weird? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nub Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Octopus Wikipedia page is first result for me. (Also who the hell doesn't know what a octopus is?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAZMINATOR Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 (Also who the hell doesn't know what a octopus is?) I think OP is trying out each search sites and see the results and see which he likes the most... I got an email from Microsoft saying that I could try Bing and Google .... see which results that I like better... I haven't tested both search sites to try to compare ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starbearer Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 Octopus Wikipedia page is first result for me. (Also who the hell doesn't know what a octopus is?) Just wanted to look up something about them. But on Google India, there's no mention of what an Octopus is, anywhere in the search results. They all go on about Octopus cards and moves etc. Also, last week, I had seen that "Bing it on", and Google won all rounds but 1. I just found this result strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew_Thepc Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Seems like it might have something to do with your locality - in the US search results, it displays the Wikipedia page as #1 for me. Or maybe it's just because it's analyzed your web history and then figured out that you're looking for travel? :p have you searched for travel discounts or anything, recently? try it in inprivate/private browsing/incognito mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpit Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 works fine here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avalanche Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 On google.be, wikipedia is on 3rd place, the rest has nothing to do with an octopus and images are on 6th place. On bing.be, there is two links to wikipedia on 2nd and 3rd place, images are on 1st place. Bing wins this round :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Example: Please note I have Stylish Installed with a dark Google theme Results are NOT affected by any addons I have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leesmithg Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Octopus Wikipedia page is first result for me. (Also who the hell doesn't know what a octopus is?) It is, 'an' Octopus b.t.w. Google make money throught their search engine. So if someone has a Cat and call it tiddles and people search for the 'a+cat+named+tiddles' and the owner of that cat has paid for that search to be numero uno, then google will make sure it's #1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead.cell Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 It is, 'an' Octopus b.t.w. Google make money throught their search engine. So if someone has a Cat and call it tiddles and people search for the 'a+cat+named+tiddles' and the owner of that cat has paid for that search to be numero uno, then google will make sure it's #1. Yes, that's totally how it works. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KibosJ Subscriber² Posted September 22, 2012 Subscriber² Share Posted September 22, 2012 Google.co.uk shows this for me: Wikipedia is NOT at the top, the travel site is :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Battery Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Google.co.uk shows this for me: Wikipedia is NOT at the top, the travel site is :/ Same result for me but then we are both UK so not surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKAngel Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 mine tells the the top one is an add related to octopus which is in a peach coloured box, then right underneath which i concider to be #1 is the wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted September 22, 2012 Veteran Share Posted September 22, 2012 It is, 'an' Octopus b.t.w. Google make money throught their search engine. So if someone has a Cat and call it tiddles and people search for the 'a+cat+named+tiddles' and the owner of that cat has paid for that search to be numero uno, then google will make sure it's #1. Wow. Just wow. If it were as simple as that any time you searched ding dong my ding dong would be way up on the list. Google doesn't make money that way. Maybe you should look up how to get your website on googles first page. It isn't by paying google anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 But on Google India, there's no mention of what an Octopus is, anywhere in the search results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 in Canada octopus shows Wikipedia first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted September 22, 2012 Administrators Share Posted September 22, 2012 Those look like sponsored results on Google to me. They pay Google to appear at the top, so that's your answer. Mando 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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