{"id":48,"date":"2006-04-18T21:11:34","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T05:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/18\/does-google-boost-google-finance-pages-in-their-index\/"},"modified":"2006-04-18T21:15:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T05:15:33","slug":"does-google-boost-google-finance-pages-in-their-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/does-google-boost-google-finance-pages-in-their-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Google boost google finance pages in their index ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/meebo-not\/\">previous blog entry<\/a> I commented about how my blog was coming up as the first result when you search for &#8220;Google Hatred&#8221; on google.com.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was now knocked out of the first position (I am second now), and to my surprise the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-08,GGLJ:en&#038;q=google+hatred\">1st position now goes to Google Finance<\/a>, makes you wonder whether google is boosting the relevance for their own content.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a screenshot:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image47\" alt=\"Google Hatred search\" src=\"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/04\/ScreenShot091.gif\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Another interesting query from my http referrer logs is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Google+2006+Q1+earnings\">Google 2006 Q1 earnings<\/a>&#8220;, I show up as 3rd and 4th results for that query (SearchEngineWatch beats me for top two spots, though I claim my entry is more relevant \ud83d\ude09 ).<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; amr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous blog entry I commented about how my blog was coming up as the first result when you search for &#8220;Google Hatred&#8221; on google.com. Well, I was now knocked out of the first position (I am second now), and to my surprise the 1st position now goes to Google Finance, makes you wonder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awadallah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}