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How do search engines measure User Happiness?

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:45 am
by ric
Let's think outside the box for a bit and try to not think as a developer, SEO or designer. How do you think search engines measure User Happines?

Here are some [b]brainstorming[/b] ideas:

* Load time of a page accross all speeds (wireless pda --> broadband)
* Browser compatability
* Way to many links could mean too cluttered?
* etc...

These elements that we brainstorm must be capable to be machine evaluated, not human.

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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:14 pm
by dgribbons
I'm not sure search engines care about user happiness. Why should they? Search engines care about subject relevance; and they try to match a search to the most relevant page to that search. Look at the stat "Visit Duration" in Awstats, if your web provider has it. I think the longer a visitor stays on your site, the happier they are - they had no other reason to leave your site.

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:42 am
by HealthInfo
On that note, here is a happy face for this post. :lol: