Intent-Based Search and 2009 Google Algorithms

Very interesting. we'll have to keep a close watch over this over the next few months.

clipped from www.establishedwebsiteforsale.co.uk Googles Search turns more personal, changing the way SEO works 2009 Intent-based Search Google has been looking up your IP and revising results based on IP. They know where you’re located and can make assumptions about the intent of your search. As you get more into intent-based search, it’s going to change the way pages rank, Bruce explains. “The page that ranks for a shopping query is an entirely different architecture than the page that ranks for a research query.” Bruce thinks that in the first six months of 2009, we’re going to see a lot more implementation of behavior and intent-based search leading to a mindset of “ranking is dead, and traffic is all that matters.”