How does user feedback impact search results?

Key Takeaways

[Music] today praveen is asking what makes user feedback eligible enough that google decides to tweak its search ranking algorithm taking a step back every website that cares about their users in the long term should watch out for feedback and work to improve over time your users can help you to spot issues early on they can guide you to new opportunities and if you've been treating them right they often have an interest in helping your site to improve listen to feedback and work to improve over time when it comes to a broadly used service like google search we get a lot of feedback and it's sometimes tricky to prioritize that like any larger system there will always be things to improve and to change it's more a matter of finding the critical areas for improvement and focusing on them the most direct way to give us feedback in search is to use the feedback link on the bottom of the search results this feedback goes directly to a team at google to be reviewed organized and prioritized there's also a help community for google search if you'd like to bring up issues for the experts there to double check while sometimes the solution can be to search slightly differently it's still useful for us to hear about what you initially tried after all search should be able to help users even when they don't know all of the ins and outs of search the experts in the help forums can also escalate discussions to google when needed if there's something that's very problematic perhaps objectively incorrect misleading offensive or otherwise wholly inappropriate it can also be worthwhile to forward that to the public-facing google accounts on social media like twitter let us know so that we can work to improve as quickly as possible regardless of the contact method make it easy for us to recognize the scale and the scope of the problem that you've run into give us at least one common query that you suspect many users might use and that highlights the issue as clearly as possible as i mentioned before we do try to prioritize issues reported to us in various ways some things will need to be worked on as soon as possible others might need to wait until we work on a specific part of our systems again in practice it makes little sense to manually tweak the search results the web is so gigantic and ever-changing and users ask us new questions every day because of that our goal is generally to improve the algorithms that pull together the search results overall and not to tweak things for individual queries this may take a bit of time but it makes search better for everyone worldwide for the large number of searches that are done every day so in short we appreciate all of the feedback that we can get for search your feedback helps us to continue to make search better so please keep that feedback coming and that's it for this time i hope you found this useful and insightful see you in one of the next episodes of ask googlebot and don't forget to subscribe to see them [Music] all [Music]