{"id":17716,"date":"2017-04-12T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17716"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:56:28","slug":"googles-search-quality-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/12\/googles-search-quality-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&rsquo;s Search Quality Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-search-quality-crisis-272174\">Danny Sullivan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-search-quality-crisis-272174\"><p>What&rsquo;s happened to Google search is on par with the Apple Maps fiasco or Samsung&rsquo;s exploding Galaxy Note7 phones.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Google&rsquo;s results might be as good as ever. They might even be better than ever. But if the public perception is that Google has a search quality problem, that wins, because we don&rsquo;t have any hard figures about relevancy.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If you want to go further with me examining the issues in this particular search, see some of my commentary in this <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/moments\/845381918765940736\">Twitter moment<\/a>. But the facts don&rsquo;t matter, in terms of Google&rsquo;s search quality reputation. The Google outrage machine is stoked.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We should continue to hold Google and search engines to a high standard and highlight where things clearly go wrong. But we should also understand that perfection isn&rsquo;t going to be possible. That with imperfect search engines, we need to employ more human critical thinking skills alongside the searches we do &mdash; and that we teach those to generations to come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/googles-search-quality-crisis\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/googles-search-quality-crisis\/\">\n<p>I agree; I think users should have <em>always<\/em> been viewing search results with much more scrutiny than they do. But many people are lulled into believing that Google&rsquo;s representation of the truth is the correct one. Their rich snippet answer box made this already-pervasive belief far worse by highlighting a single piece of a webpage as, seemingly, The Answer, even for questions where The Answer doesn&rsquo;t exist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/07\/googles-algorithm-is-lying-to-you-about-onions-and-blaming-me-for-it\/\">Google&rsquo;s Algorithm Is Lying to You About Onions and Blaming Me for It<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Sullivan: What&rsquo;s happened to Google search is on par with the Apple Maps fiasco or Samsung&rsquo;s exploding Galaxy Note7 phones. [&#8230;] Google&rsquo;s results might be as good as ever. They might even be better than ever. But if the public perception is that Google has a search quality problem, that wins, because we don&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,343,96],"class_list":["post-17716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-search","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17717,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17716\/revisions\/17717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}