Poor google results.

[nigelwright7557]

A search in google first brings up "diyaudio on ebay" before the real diyaudio site.
Looks like ebay marketing power beats all.

 

[AllenB]

Google has been this way for a long time. For a person interested in scientific searches I would think popularity based results and search term blurring would be negative things.

 

[avtech]

All good on this side of the pond..:

 

[nigelwright7557]

Just checked my browser again and it was Bing not google.

 

[PRR]

> on this side of the pond..

I understood the search to be "diyaudio on ebay", not "diyaudio".

I don't understand why he'd search for that. But the result is not IMHO "poor".

 

[nigelwright7557]

> on this side of the pond..

I understood the search to be "diyaudio on ebay", not "diyaudio".

I don't understand why he'd search for that. But the result is not IMHO "poor".

I was reporting on search results which I now see now are on Bing.

"DIYAUDIO on ebay" comes up first.
"DIYAUDIO" comes up second.

My point is search works well if you pay enough it comes up under everything.

 

[Pano]

Bing? Who uses Bing?

 

[nigelwright7557]

Bing? Who uses Bing?

Microsoft Edge defaults to Bing.

 

[Pano]

Well I now know 2 people who use Edge. Both in the west of England, oddly enough.

 

[nigelwright7557]

Well I now know 2 people who use Edge. Both in the west of England, oddly enough.

IE is pretty much obsolete now so the other Microsoft browser on Windows 10 is Edge. And Edge defaults (certainly on my latest Windows 10 install) to Bing.

 

[nigelwright7557]

Problem fixed, eventually worked out how to change start page to google in Edge.
While I use Edge for browsing for web design work I always test with Chrome.

 

[avtech]

Bing? Who uses Bing?

 

[Jason]

If I searched for "widgets on mars", I would fully expect the first result to be the website known as "mars" and hopefully showing where "widgets" are on "mars". So I don't see anything wrong with "diyaudio on eBay" showing eBay first. You're literally asking where to find diyaudio "things" on the website known as "eBay".

If you want to find things pertaining to "eBay" on diyAudio I'd search for "eBay on diyAudio", noting that eBay has a much higher "authority" in general and would likely come up as a first result anyway as 99.9% of the population that type in "eBay" are expecting to find something on eBay itself.

To do what I think you're trying to do, you'd probably want to search for this:

site:diyaudio.com ebay

 

[AllenB]

This is good advice. Also -site:*.* (minus) can be useful.

 

[Jason]

I had another thought that maybe your search should have been:

site:diyaudio.com "on ebay"

If you were searching for the exact text "on ebay" to be somewhere within diyaudio.com.

 

[avtech]

I was reporting on search results which I now see now are on Bing.

"DIYAUDIO on ebay" comes up first.
"DIYAUDIO" comes up second.

My point is search works well if you pay enough it comes up under everything.

What was the actual search term that you used Nigel?