Google Instant - The end of SEO as we know it?

**Russ H** · Sep 17th, 2010, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by Jonleehacker

Was watching my wife (who could be described as a typical Google user) do a search last night.

She never even noticed the "instant" results changing as she typed.

Supported my theory that Google Instant has a bunch of people who think about SEO excited, but will not really have much affect on the general public.

Interesting.

I do think it will change search results-- and that google will actually be getting more extraneous searches by some folks who see interesting things as they type.

And I also think that this will take a few weeks/months for people to notice-- and USE.

We'll see!

-Russ H.

**Icy** · Sep 17th, 2010, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by Russ H

Question: Is it possible to get facebook alerts (like google alerts) when keywords like "Napa B&B" are used by ANY facebook member?

(sorry if this is a noob question-- we could really use this!)

-Russ H.

Not for ANY facebook member. But you could create something to get an alert for all profiles who have statuses on public. Actually there is something to search all public profiles statuses for key words, but it still wouldn't be an alert unless you create something to check for new ones and send you an alert..

**Jonleehacker** · Sep 17th, 2010, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Russ H

Question: Is it possible to get facebook alerts (like google alerts) when keywords like "Napa B&B" are used by ANY facebook member?

Well if you set up a Google alert for that term, in theory it will trigger on any public Facebook page that contains that term, however large sections of FB are only available to logged in users, and then the majority of those pages are only accessible to a subset of logged in users (friends or fans of a page) so no indexing or scanning service will ever have access to everything.

Even if FB did provide such a service, and say the term came up on someone's wall and you got an alert, you would either a.) not be able to see the post, or b.) not be able to interact with it.

**biophase** · Sep 17th, 2010, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by andviv

For the real case of the Dancing Shoes scenario, the singular made sense as that is the one offered by google.

Andres,

In my browsers Google offers only Dancing Shoes with the "S". Is it different on yours?

**Bond** · Sep 17th, 2010, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by biophase

Andres,

In my browsers Google offers only Dancing Shoes with the "S". Is it different on yours?

Same here....

**andviv** · Sep 18th, 2010, 09:31 AM

oops. soory for the confusion.

I was talking about the thread I created for the case study of a real customer I had. I did not want to tell everybody in the public forum what his real keywords were, so I used 'dancing shoes' as an example of that case.

So, for this customer, the singular expression is the 'correct' solution for him. Makes sense?

**Jonleehacker** · Oct 19th, 2010, 11:51 AM

Found this today and thought it was worth updating this thread...

See all 15 here: The 15 Greatest Google Autocomplete Fails

My fav:

**Russ H** · Oct 19th, 2010, 03:20 PM

Jon Lee-

OMG, that one made me laugh out loud!

And the link-- scary stuff!

People can use google instant as a sociology tool!

-Russ H.

**mtnman** · Nov 10th, 2010, 12:23 AM

I call bullshit.

I don't see any difference in my G referral traffic.

Oh, and isn't it called Search Engine Optimization for a reason?... there's always something to optimize.