Paris Hilton Deserves Justice! (From Google Universal Search…)

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 by Janet Driscoll Miller

Paris Hilton Deserves Justice! (From Google Universal Search…)

Poor old Paris Hilton. She just can’t find justice anywhere — not even in the new Google Universal Search Results. Today I tried a search on the term “Paris Hilton” — a very newsworthy person this week. Here are the results of that search:

Appropriately, news does come up as the first entry for good old Paris. But where are Paris Hilton videos? What about Paris Hilton pictures? Are those not worthy of the first page? Ironically, “paris hilton pics” and the like were not even among the suggested “related” searches. The related results were:

Instead, the related searches presented by Google were (according to the Overture term suggestion tool) less searched than image-related terms. The terms in blue represent the searches for the Google list of “related searches”:

Also note that one of Paris’ related search terms is “Pamela Anderson”. Hmmmm… can you guess the connection here? Other than being blonde “actresses”, what do these two have in common, other than illicit videotape scandals? I imagine there are more recent, relevant searches related to Paris — maybe “Save Paris”? Personally, I think Google Universal Search still has a ways to go to be considered helpful and truly relevant.

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6 comments on “Paris Hilton Deserves Justice! (From Google Universal Search…)”

MikeM Says:

June 7th, 2007 at 9:27 am

Our system is broke. The heiress is freed after serving 3 days of the original 45.
Brian Says:

June 7th, 2007 at 11:38 am

“Personally, I think Google Universal Search still has a ways to go to be considered helpful and truly relevant.”

you mean you want Google to help people find pornographic pictures faster?
Steven Bradley Says:

June 7th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

Brian isn’t that why the internet was created?

And poor Paris. I hope her mysterious illness gets better so she can get back to her jail cell. Anyone want to guess how soon it is before she’s stopped for driving without a license again.
Brian Says:

June 7th, 2007 at 2:05 pm

haa ha i guess yer right
Webmaster Money Says:

June 11th, 2007 at 6:46 am

It is only politics all around. Maybe she knows people from Google and she doesnt want pics on firs sites.
Search Marketing Sage » Blog Archive » Google Universal Search: Image Results Algorithm Decoded Says:

June 25th, 2007 at 10:23 am

[...] First let me acknowledge that not EVERY search produces image results. Different search query terms present different results — some with images, some without. We’re still investigating why this is true, but I do believe that some human intervention does occur at Google to determine which search queries will produce images and which will not. A few weeks ago, I wrote a post on Marketing Pilgrim about how a search for the term “Paris Hilton” did not yield image results, which I found surprising since that is one of the most searched items about the hotel heiress. Since that time, however, Google has now added images to this search query. [...]

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