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How To Tell Google You Don’t Like Their Search Results

written by John Chow on July 9, 2007

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Have you ever done a Google search and not like the results it gave you? For example, if you do a search for John Chow, you would expect JohnChow.com to be the number one result. Well, Google has you covered! If you don’t like the results Google produces, you can tell them on this I’m not satisfied with the search results page.

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Google isn’t able to respond directly to comments submitted in the above form but the information will be reviewed by someone on the quality team. How many dissatisfied searchers do you think it will take before Google restores JohnChow.com back at the number one spot?

Some will say I’ll probably just piss off Google by posting this. I doubt it. The dissatisfied link is at the bottom of every Google search results page and it’s there to help them improve their search. So, feel free to let Google know how dissatisfied you are when you don’t get the search results you expected. :twisted:

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I complained in detail!
What Google is doing is completely wrong. Even if you did break their rules, they can't penalize johnchow.com, it hurts readers who are trying to find your site.

I actually find it interesting not to find johnchow.com as the first result. It allows me to discover so many blogs written by so many different people who like you so much that they devoted at least one post on their blog to you. My favorite so far is a French blog where the author says that you are American (as in a US citizen)(http://doesnotunderstand.free.fr/?p=343).

Thanks for this tip, but I know what your evil plan really is. Let's see if anyone else knows as well!

What's in it for me if I complain on your behalf? :twisted:

Guess what? You're not on the first page for evil either. :twisted:

Laura :mrgreen:

To bad I can copy and Paste I would have helped you out..... :idea:

It's not evil at all. They are doing their customers a disservice by not displaying your blog. They aren't hurting you as much as they are the customers who need their advise!

Oh, you don't see the true evil in this? Bwahahaha! I do.

Thanks John, I didn't know you could express your displeasure with google search. I'm sure someone at google is on your case as we speak.

Very evil post indeed. Rallying up the supporters to voice out their concern for you. Awesome, awesome job, John. You are, and always will be, the man! :cool:

John take back what is right fully yours.

Give me my domain Rank OR... Give me liberty from Google. :evil:

I don't think you wanna take it that far! Remember, keep your friends close and keep your enemies closer.

Is johnchow.com down is because of getting links from 'Paid Link' sites?

What You think John?
did you?

Binoj

nice review john

www.desiarticles.com

humm me too not on the 1st place :cry:

google this is not fair , please bring me & John @ 1st place while we search our name :cool:

It seems our friendly neighborhood billionaires (last count they were up to about $US15b each) Page & Brin are currently working on a database that will allow people to search their DNA structures? After that little feedback John, you may find that your DNA structure in the Googleplex database may resemble that of a gnat! :smile:

Col

This is kind of cheating... I wonder how long it will take untill you will be back to #1.

Haha! I love the comments you left for Google to review. Awesome! :D

It would also be interesting to read what comments others have sent in regarding John Chow dot com's disappearance at the top spot.

Don't practice unethical tactics such as incentivising linkbacks and Google won't punish you.

Google boys belive they must judge and none has asked them to judge.

Everyday their results are poorer and people is going back to yahoo.

They are Good, but not God, and if they act as God instead of improving, they are going to hell.

Your obsession with this subject is becoming tiresome. Quick, easy and never ending content.

You broke the rules. You paid the penalty. End of.

As my daughter says 'Build a bridge and get over it.'

Be very careful with this one guys.

Hey john, how this is damaging your revenue?

I'd imagine if people are googling johnchow.com, they know how to get to his site, so it shouldn't have any effect whatsoever on his revenue.

This is a good feature! I am going to use it every time I am not satisfied the Google results. :)

Actually, there have been quite a lot of searches that I've made recently that were completely irrelevant. Great tip in general (not only to flood them with where-is-John-Chow complaints).

It makes Google look foolish. People will start using other search engines more

No they won't. Google still has the most accurate search results of all the search engines.

other search engines don't even come close. Google has this search thing down to a science

Larry page and his friend foudn google coz they needed stuff which can be searched..
Who Knows an another Search Gaint is is being born...

John would be so pissed off that he would have his own search which would shoo away google... as google did to lycos and ask...

Nothing is impossible...

I still think it sucks! If I took the time to build up his kind of traffic and shared out all the knowledge he has done, I'd be pretty pissed if Google or any search engine knocked me out of the running for my own friggin name. JC was top of the list for months now nowhere to be found that's petty of Google if you ask me. I say screw'em JC & keep up the good work! :twisted:

John, what are you going to say if they respond by pointing out the fact that you're breaking several of their rules?

You sell links and you reciprocate links out the wazoo. Why should Google include you? You did the crime, now do the time.

I'm sorry but you're the one that looks foolish on this one. This post makes you seem like a 2 year old throwing a tantrum.

Besides, I thought in an earlier post you said you didn't care about the Google traffic?

If Google respond, that'll be great. But we know Google's not going to respond. If they do, they wouldn't be able to create their FUD. :twisted:

Controversy :lol: is good for traffic and we can be little evil about it.

Vijay

It makes him look like he is leveraging his readership to gain against something that is likely not in his favour, no?

Its not thumb rule that if you search a name that it should give the result of that person's website, search using some well known personalities, you will know why this is true. So there is nothing wrong in google doing this to you.

John Chow Vs. John Cow - What do you say who is better.. Just check and voice your views at Info4beingrich

How about we not, the answer is already obvious

I've gotta go with the bovine recently... :roll:

Well, it sounds like it would be worth a shot. Let's see what happens

Why should we do this??

This blog is slowly becoming damn useless. I am removing you from my reader. Bye bye john

Probably the same guy pretending to be Tyler, no?

This mystery person will be back!!

That away John, take it to "the man". Google, ready or not, here we come.

Lets hope our votes will help restore John Chow to its rightful spot on Google :cool:

Again, what is with this sense of entitlement? John broke Google's rules and he's paying the price for it. How about being responsible for your own actions once in a while?

If he got rid of the reviews (aka linking scheme) and stopped selling links to any site under the moon, and sent in a reinclusion request saying Sorry, he might just get back in. Of course that would involve checking his ego which I don't really see happening. At least not publicly.

I think Google sits on a fine line, due to the fact that it is both a for-profit business, as well as one of the web's most popular (relevant) gateways to information.

Though it is Google's right, selective exclusion deteriorates search engine relevancy.

You can argue that the #1 result for 'John Chow' is relevant, but you and I both know it isn't how it is supposed to work.

All of the sites are about the very 'John Chow' you are seeking information about, so it becomes a very thinly-veiled move.

This whole paid linking thing is such bullshit. It's not that hard to see that Google only wants one company to be making money from ads...