[sdiy] why does google suck SO bad for finding my parts? Yahoo is on it!

[Nate Reeves]

i agree the site is HORRIBLE (no offense bob!)

hardly blame google for dumping this site at the bottom of anything,  
it really needs a once (or twice) over....

cheers

nate

On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:49 PM, Rainer Buchty wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Bob Weigel wrote:
>
>> With google...I'm not even listed.  At all.  4 pages of irrelevant  
>> links. What is wrong with them?  Why are they the 'best' if they  
>> don't work worth a crud on simple text stuff like this? -Bob
>
> Uhm. Just out of curiosity (and because I found Google's ranking  
> algorithm rather superior for the way I phrase my search requests) I  
> was browsing your pages, and, frankly, I'm fully with Google here.
>
> Where's your shop!?
>
> It may just be me, but I somewhat expected to find it under "SD  
> Shop", so I clicked on that.
>
> However, there I find some text and photos. Shop photos. Studio  
> photos. Maybe it's the "Synthesizer Assistance"?
>
> No. I just find more text. A friggin lot of text, I might add.
> But there's links to Manufacturers.
>
> I'm sorta biased, so I click on Ensoniq.
>
> Oh no! Even more text.
> Maybe with clicking on one of the listed manufacturer products?
> Let's click on ESQ1. Or SQ80. (Mind you, I'm biased.)
>
> But, no. Still no parts but more text. And links.
> (And incomplete citations from SDIY, I might add...)
>
> But there's a parts locator, which by the link color tells me that 2  
> of 3 links have already been visited. Ah, yes. They point back to  
> the synthesizer page I'm already on. Loop, see loop.
>
> So I go for "keys", cause that's the one I haven't visited yet.
>
> Yeah! It seems to point into your key inventory page. So let's track  
> back whether the main inventory page is linked from somewhere?
>
> Oh, it indeed is. But I had to search for a while to find it as it's  
> buried in your "Synth Assistance" page under loads of text.
>
> I'm running 1600x1050 here and am not known for using particularly  
> huge fonts (rather on the contrary), still I find that link  
> somewhere around the second page of text disguised as "here's a link  
> to help locating parts including [text...] some of my semiconductor,  
> key, and misc inventory [much more text]"
>
> And you wonder why Google, which does not just use a pure link daisy  
> chain analysis but rather a more sophisticated, context-sensitive  
> analysis does not find your stuff?
>
> Even humans easily fail that Turing test you liked to set up with  
> your pages!
>
> To make a long story short: if you want your page content to be  
> found, your page shouldn't play hide and seek with human and  
> electronic visitors seeking for information.
>
> Rainer
>
>
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