[UPDATE] Ten Changes to Google Search Announced

Related query results refinements: Sometimes we fetch
results for queries that are similar to the actual search you type.
This change makes it less likely that these results will rank highly
if the original query had a rare word that was dropped in the
alternate query. For example, if you are searching for
[rare red widgets], you might not be as interested in a page that
only mentions "red widgets."

More comprehensive indexing: This change makes more
long-tail documents available in our index, so they are more
likely to rank for relevant queries.

New "parked domain" classifier: This is a new algorithm
for automatically detecting parked domains. Parked domains are
placeholder sites that are seldom useful and often filled with ads.
They typically don't have valuable content for our users, so in
most cases we prefer not to show them.

More autocomplete predictions: With autocomplete, we
try to strike a balance between coming up with flexible predictions
and remaining true to your intentions. This change makes our
prediction algorithm a little more flexible for certain queries,
without losing your original intention.

Fresher and more complete blog search results: We
made a change to our blog search index to get coverage that is
both fresher and more comprehensive.

Original content: We added new signals to help us make
better predictions about which of two similar web pages is the
original one.

Image result freshness: We made a change to how we
determine image freshness for news queries. This will help us
find the freshest images more often.

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maxya said:

I'm more concerned about new "Original content" change ...

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FuryFit said:

While I'm glad they're trying to improve their content originality detection, there are still many cases where it is awarded to the scraper/aggregator sites instead of the original source - the original source gets kicked down. It hasn't happened to me but I've seen a lot of people complain about it... home improvement write up site owners for example.

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phpbuilt said:

I can't believe Google was already sending tons of traffic to parked domains. 1000's of domains can sit on the same IP address serving nothing but 100% ads on homepage and Google only now just figured out how to stop sending traffic to them?

Here I was thinking they were a little more advanced than that by now.

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