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[incrediblehelp]

IE 'home loans' as opposed to 'domestic lending products'

HUH? Are you saying in your example that "home loans" gets less bids and has less AdWords advertisers than "domestic lending products"? If so then you way off base. I dont want to get in argument on this topic, but the fact is, its of Google best interest to push phrases (whatever way possible) that people are bidding on. This change could be another way to do this.

[nethy]

HUH? Are you saying in your example that "home loans" gets less bids and has less AdWords advertisers than "domestic lending products"? If so then you way off base. I dont want to get in argument on this topic, but the fact is, its of Google best interest to push phrases (whatever way possible) that people are bidding on. This change could be another way to do this.

No. Sorry. I've gone back & clarified.

What I meant was that within a niche (like loans) main key phrases (like home loans) get more action. But in general these niches are usually small. Big Areas (lots of pages, lots of searches)like 'how to boil eggs,' 'Johnny Depp's glasses' or 'barack obama vice president,' get very little action.

[Orpheus Descending]

Now you boys are just spoiling my day and throwing oil on my fire. It's not up in Ireland yet, so maybe I'll at least get a jump on the trend. Randy, will you keep us posted about any changes you see based on the scenario you described earlier. What I wonder is if Google will give users the option of turning the damn thing off since it can be annoying. It's one of the things that bugged by about Cuil.

[Randy]

Will do OD. I've got a few different phrases like the one I described before that I'll be keeping an eye on. They each pop up at different places as you're typing in your search phrase, so it'll be interesting to see if they start getting more hits.

[mcanerin]

I just checked, and the suggestions appear to be affected by location and personalization. This is good.

I hated it in the past when Google would suggest "color" instead of "colour" for non-US visitors. If Americans can't spell, that's their issue, but it should not be inflicted on the rest of the world

Ian

[Orpheus Descending]

God Ian I hear ya'. As a California Yank in King Cuil's Court I can't tell you how difficult it is to deal with the non existent 'z' or zed in Ireland. Optimize, Optimised - my spell check hates me, and I have a foot in both camps.

[Pamela]

I've used Google Suggest for a while now and like it. But I suspect Google is going to make a lot of money off of exercising a greater degree of control over what search queries are most popular. Assuming people use it (which i think many will), more people will search for the suggested (most popular) terms (instead of a misspelling, longtail, or whatever they first had in mind when they started typing), making the popular phrases more popular, and therefore more competitive for SEO and more expensive for PPC. so search terms with highest volume get more volume, competition gets more competitive and rich get richer.

cha-ching for G!