OT: google personalised search/attn: Beamends

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Tom Woods

Guest

• Oct 4, 2006

• #1

Richard - are you now paying google lots of money to advertise? or is
the 'google personalised search' thing that i've just noticed being
mentioned when i search on google working quite well?

I keep searching google and at the top of the results list i get
'product search results' listing similar items in the beamends shop.

I'm not sure i like this direct advertising stuff or not! I must have
spent far too much time looking up parts on Richards website!

 

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beamendsltd

Guest

• Oct 5, 2006

• #2

In message <[email protected]>
Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Richard - are you now paying google lots of money to advertise? or is
> the 'google personalised search' thing that i've just noticed being
> mentioned when i search on google working quite well?
>

Good god no! Paying for web advertising is pointless!

> I keep searching google and at the top of the results list i get
> 'product search results' listing similar items in the beamends shop.
>
> I'm not sure i like this direct advertising stuff or not! I must have
> spent far too much time looking up parts on Richards website!

Nothin' to do wiv' me Guv - it must be a Google thing, over which
I have no control I'm affraid. There's no way on earth I'd *ever*
use direct marketing as I associate it with crap products that
can't be sold by more usual methods.

Richard


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Stephen Hull

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• Oct 5, 2006

• #3

In message <b242ef704e%[email protected]>
beamendsltd <[email protected]> wrote:

>In message <[email protected]>
> Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Richard - are you now paying google lots of money to advertise? or is
>> the 'google personalised search' thing that i've just noticed being
>> mentioned when i search on google working quite well?
>>
>
>Good god no! Paying for web advertising is pointless!
>
>> I keep searching google and at the top of the results list i get
>> 'product search results' listing similar items in the beamends shop.
>>
>> I'm not sure i like this direct advertising stuff or not! I must have
>> spent far too much time looking up parts on Richards website!
>
>Nothin' to do wiv' me Guv - it must be a Google thing, over which
>I have no control I'm affraid. There's no way on earth I'd *ever*
>use direct marketing as I associate it with crap products that
>can't be sold by more usual methods.
>
>Richard
>

You're picked up on Google because it finds what's in your
<meta name="Description" content="Land Rover Spare Parts in the Leek
area"> etc,etc, and because you have a sensible amount of info in there,
too much info in the meta tag area and the search robots ingore it.

Steve.


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Tom Woods

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• Oct 5, 2006

• #4

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:22:54 +0100, beamendsltd
<[email protected]> wrote:

>In message <[email protected]>
> Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Richard - are you now paying google lots of money to advertise? or is
>> the 'google personalised search' thing that i've just noticed being
>> mentioned when i search on google working quite well?
>>
>
>Good god no! Paying for web advertising is pointless!
>
>> I keep searching google and at the top of the results list i get
>> 'product search results' listing similar items in the beamends shop.
>>
>> I'm not sure i like this direct advertising stuff or not! I must have
>> spent far too much time looking up parts on Richards website!
>
>Nothin' to do wiv' me Guv - it must be a Google thing, over which
>I have no control I'm affraid. There's no way on earth I'd *ever*
>use direct marketing as I associate it with crap products that
>can't be sold by more usual methods.

it looks like this:

http://www.zen68482.zen.co.uk/misc/beamgoogle.JPG

That wasnt the search i was doing before as i cant rember what that
was for but it illustrates the point.
it even manages to get your price!

 

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Mark Solesbury

Guest

• Oct 5, 2006

• #5

On 04/10/2006 18:46, Tom Woods wrote:
> Richard - are you now paying google lots of money to advertise? or is
> the 'google personalised search' thing that i've just noticed being
> mentioned when i search on google working quite well?
>
> I keep searching google and at the top of the results list i get
> 'product search results' listing similar items in the beamends shop.
>
> I'm not sure i like this direct advertising stuff or not! I must have
> spent far too much time looking up parts on Richards website!
>
i think it pulls it from Froogle - who seem to love you rich!

Google have a finger in everything these days! Good on em!

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beamendsltd

Guest

• Oct 6, 2006

• #6

In message <[email protected]>
Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 08:22:54 +0100, beamendsltd
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >In message <[email protected]>
> > Tom Woods <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Richard - are you now paying google lots of money to advertise? or is
> >> the 'google personalised search' thing that i've just noticed being
> >> mentioned when i search on google working quite well?
> >>
> >
> >Good god no! Paying for web advertising is pointless!
> >
> >> I keep searching google and at the top of the results list i get
> >> 'product search results' listing similar items in the beamends shop.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure i like this direct advertising stuff or not! I must have
> >> spent far too much time looking up parts on Richards website!
> >
> >Nothin' to do wiv' me Guv - it must be a Google thing, over which
> >I have no control I'm affraid. There's no way on earth I'd *ever*
> >use direct marketing as I associate it with crap products that
> >can't be sold by more usual methods.
>
> it looks like this:
>
> http://www.zen68482.zen.co.uk/misc/beamgoogle.JPG
>
> That wasnt the search i was doing before as i cant rember what that
> was for but it illustrates the point.
> it even manages to get your price!
>

Ah right, I see what you mean! That's from Froogle, or GoogleBase,
or whatever it's being called this week. They've finaly got the
name right!

www.froogle.co.uk

for info.

Richard
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beamendsltd

Guest

• Oct 6, 2006

• #7

In message <[email protected]>
Mark Solesbury <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/10/2006 18:46, Tom Woods wrote:
> > Richard - are you now paying google lots of money to advertise? or is
> > the 'google personalised search' thing that i've just noticed being
> > mentioned when i search on google working quite well?
> >
> > I keep searching google and at the top of the results list i get
> > 'product search results' listing similar items in the beamends shop.
> >
> > I'm not sure i like this direct advertising stuff or not! I must have
> > spent far too much time looking up parts on Richards website!
> >
> i think it pulls it from Froogle - who seem to love you rich!

And so they should - the upload file is 6Mb!

>
> Google have a finger in everything these days! Good on em!
>

Richard

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www.beamends-lrspares.co.uk [email protected]
www.radioparadise.com - Good Music, No Vine
Lib Dems - Townies keeping comedy alive