Comments on: Big Upset: Live Search & Ask.com Win Kentucky Derby Search http://searchengineland.com/big-upset-live-search-askcom-win-kentucky-derby-search-18553 Search Engine Land: News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:39:57 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt McGee http://searchengineland.com/big-upset-live-search-askcom-win-kentucky-derby-search-18553/comment-page-1#comment-5462 Matt McGee Tue, 05 May 2009 16:43:14 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=18553#comment-5462 Matt - that's only cuz you guys love the Huffington Post. ;-) Matt – that’s only cuz you guys love the Huffington Post. ;-)

]]> By: Danny Sullivan http://searchengineland.com/big-upset-live-search-askcom-win-kentucky-derby-search-18553/comment-page-1#comment-5461 Danny Sullivan Tue, 05 May 2009 08:39:17 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=18553#comment-5461 Fair enough, Google does get two crawled results that mention the winner in their titles. But the results from 2005 and 2008 aren't exactly poster children for freshness. More important, Google should do more hard coding for queries like these, I'd say. I don't think those searching really care how you got the right answer to the top of the page. I doubt they're thinking, only Google did it with the algorithm. I'm pretty sure they're just jazzed to get the right answer as early as possible on the page, however it happens. Fair enough, Google does get two crawled results that mention the winner in their titles. But the results from 2005 and 2008 aren’t exactly poster children for freshness.

More important, Google should do more hard coding for queries like these, I’d say. I don’t think those searching really care how you got the right answer to the top of the page. I doubt they’re thinking, only Google did it with the algorithm. I’m pretty sure they’re just jazzed to get the right answer as early as possible on the page, however it happens.

]]> By: Matt Cutts http://searchengineland.com/big-upset-live-search-askcom-win-kentucky-derby-search-18553/comment-page-1#comment-5460 Matt Cutts Tue, 05 May 2009 05:25:41 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=18553#comment-5460 I'll just point out that if you leave out the hard-coded "one box" results that someone added manually to Ask and Microsoft, Google was the first to have the answer in the algorithmic/crawled results, at least according to the images in the original post. :) I’ll just point out that if you leave out the hard-coded “one box” results that someone added manually to Ask and Microsoft, Google was the first to have the answer in the algorithmic/crawled results, at least according to the images in the original post. :)

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