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Is Google putting more weight on brands in rankings?

On February 26, 2009, Google software engineer Matt Cutts collected questions on Google Moderator and answered many of them on video. Monica from Madison, WI asked: Can you verify that Google is ...  
 
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askpersonaltrainers (6 months ago) Show Hide
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Thanks for the info, I don't know anyone who uses any other search engine and if I have to even 1 time I get frustrated that they all suck compared to google...
bmeister77 (6 months ago) Show Hide
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The Brand Algorithm will probably be triggered with terms like 'buy','company','[geographic target]','sale','shop','order' etc. etc. matched by a 'new' database of brands (Chambers of Commerce databases etc.).
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gvanderleun (8 months ago) Show Hide
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Good spokesman for Google.
MattCutts (8 months ago) Show Hide
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wa7son, the video confirms that there was an algorithmic change, but that we didn't and don't think of the ranking change in terms of promoting brands.
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Question: "Are Google putting more weight on brands more in search results?"

Answer: "No we don't, we just changed something so that brands might now be appearing higher up on the list"

- Well isn't that what the woman was asking?
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thanks for explaining absolutely nothing about this "change"... yet again.

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