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April 20, 2004
Google Keyword Suggestions
As most of our readers have noticed the 'keyword suggestions' by Google which we reported a few days ago seemed to have dissapeared.
According to a recent Onestat report (brought to my attention by Andy Beal's weblog) it appears that the application of Google of sucha set of suggestions will drive single word keypharses totally out of business - so if you still think that you can SEO your website for a single word youy better think again on how useful this is (if not how possible).
However. I have to say that there are some major problems with the way that Google is trying to achieve this keyword suggestion (and I say this after playing with the feature for the couple hours that I managed to see it on my PC). The choice of keywords that are suggested by Google seem to be the 'most popular'. This a recipe that will drive more visitors to 'popular' searches (and eventually websites) but that does not necessarily mean that it will improve the search experience and results.
The Google keyword suggestion may be a step towards a different type of search engine but at this stage it looks like a half measure. I understand why Google has removed it from action at this stage. I hope it will come back with a lot more functionality than the one I happened upon last week.
Posted by Basileios at April 20, 2004 02:50 AM
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