Example: When Google's Search Results Are Not Diverse Enough

Dec 12, 2018 - 7:39 am 15 by

Google Diversity

We've all seen examples of Google showing too many search results from a single domain name for one query. But here is one where the search results are simply really not that diverse. And the query itself is not that incredibly obscure.

Search for [mens hairstyles 2018] as @Gajizmo said on Twitter.

Here is a screen shot from my computer:

Google Search Results One Domain

John Mueller from Google responded first saying, report the issue to Google:

But:

Truth is, if a Google search engineer saw this, they'd probably think this is not a really quality set of search results. I am sure Google is not proud of it.

Google can fix it over time and I suspect they will.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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