Google sharing whats that all about.
Google dont normally share?
All the best Mick UK

I thought Google admitted that they employ thousands of people who manually review and adjust the search engine results ? It makes sense when you see some poorly optimised sites at the top of the results

I think people in the industry place too much importance on site optimization and forget that Google wants their users to find the content they are searching for. Those poorly optimized sites that hit the top of the list are there because “thousands of Google users” (the manual reviewers?) found what they were looking for.

Site optimization is not top priority when promoting a website, it’s just one tiny advantage. Give Google’s users what they want and Google will find you.

Exactly. I thought Google employ thousands to do that. I understood from the various forums I visited saying that Google has a huge team of people doing the tweaking.

Not there is a turn to the story.

In my recent experience those high ranking, poorly optimized sites have one thing in common: lots of inbound links.

People are still gaming the system but it may have become more “off page” than ever because these were literally ALL unearned, more than likely paid links from obscure directory sites that, I believe, no human being would ever use.

I believe that opening up your web is very important in order to get people to enable new products on top of your content.

Why would I ever waste my time on a comment here again? Twenty-four hours and my comment is still “awaiting moderation.” Is there any specific reason or cause for this kind of control? Why not let the posts fly and delete the few you feel are spam?

Because you just lost a commenter.

people who manually review? I won’t work for google if that is the case:)

Everyweek a google guy steps up and announce a statement about their ranking algorithm.

it’s interesting…. in all fundamentals, Google is still secretive, of course it has to be so that people don’t game the system any more than they do. What’s revealed above doesn’t really say very much.