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Difference in Google Search Results with and without logged in

Posted by Unknown February 17, 2012 8 comments
To stay myself updated with latest technological upgrades in Ecommerce, I was looking for top ecommerce blogs to get it subscribed via email or other way. To do this, I go for search into the Google.com using Firefox web browser. Search box of Google was waiting for me to put a query. Therefore, I entered “top ten ecommerce blogs” and click to search for a result; I was surprised with the results I found. Can someone guess why I was surprised?
No? Not?

Surprisingly, my blog on ecommerce was on 4th place. I did same process again to find list of top ten ecommerce blogs; there was no change in the search results. When I tried Google.com using Google Chrome for a same search query, I did not found my blog in the first 10 results whereas it was found on 4th when I used Firefox. This difference confused me a lot. It might be an issue with web browsers. So, I cleared cookies for a while in both of the web browsers and I did same process again in Firefox and chrome. This time, I could not find my blog in first ten results and both browsers had same results on “top ten ecommerce blogs”.

Do you know why? I find, logged into Google account was the main reason of this difference, which I had never noticed before and automatically logged out after clearing the Firefox cookies.

Now, the question is why this difference was there. Why a logged in user can’t see a normal Google search results?

The answer is the effect of personalized search / social search / search plus your world (SPYW)! These results are based on what you and the people in your circles have shared, commented and +1’d in Google+ stream.

Here, I can see my blog on 4th place, which was originally posted in Google+ stream of Ecommerce Blog and I shared it on Ydeveloper’s Google+ stream. Please take a note; I was logged in with Ydeveloper’s Google+ account while searching for a “top ten ecommerce blogs”.


With and Without logged in Search Result comparison:


Google search results on “top ten ecommerce blogs” with logged in:


Google search results on “top ten ecommerce blogs” without logged in:


Are you in favor of these personalized search results or still, you loving the normal search results.
Please share your views on this topic via comment.

Social Search Engines and Ecommerce Store

Posted by Unknown January 12, 2012 6 comments
Personalized Search Engine – a new era of Search Engine begins: 
Recently, Google has transformed its search engine to social search engine or personalized search engine or an integration of the Google+ into Search engine. Search result has now being influenced by the interest of people, their preferences, photos and posts shared in their Google+ page or profile when they have signed-in. Therefore, it is now being logical the previous statement made by Google when they have released the encrypt version and blocked all organic (signed-in) search queries from Google Analytics and said this is because of the privacy as it was the part of this new integration of Google+ to search.After a series of enhancements in Google search engine as seen below, it is now being confirmed that People can see list of publically shared results of whom they are following or those who are in their circles – if he/she is being search something after signing on Google+.
  • Google Instant
  • Place Search
  • Instant Previews
  • Social Search Update
  • Recipe View
  • Google Profile Enhanced
  • +1 Button
  • Search by Image
  • Flight Search
  • Personal Results
  • Profile in Search
  • Related people and page
You can find more information on last three search engine updates in this post, [Search, plus Your World] and all other updates here.

On the other hand, make sure, if you have heard about Google’s Custom Search Engine, then it is used in websites as a site search tool powered by Google.

Personalized Search Engine and E-commerce Store:
Guess you are an online retailer and selling branded and designer Sunglasses over your ecommerce store and struggling with getting potential customers – a solution is to have the Google+ page for your ecommerce business. The community is behind on the most search queries, therefore if you have signed-in your G+ page and have huge following and followers, you may discover the personal results, posts, photos, meaningful conversation from their profile to search engine on the topic you are interested in a way it wasn’t possible before.
You are selling Sunglasses, you can find what people are talking about Sunglasses, what they like, dislike, suggesting people and pages may enable you to follow or add them into your circle. You can also search profile of people or pages directly into the search box auto complete whether he/she might be interesting for you to add or not.

Of course, there are some other ways to promote ecommerce store into Google’s personalized search engine – share your views and ideas on this topic via comments.

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