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Google Previews New Search Infrastructure
Google has announced a "developer preview" of a new search infrastructure, though one wouldn't have to be a developer to try it out. Google is asking for feedback on how the search results in the new regime stack up against the old. Matt Cutts has posted a mini FAQ. Some early testing indicates that the new search may be faster in some cases, and return more relevant results, than the old one. Those who attempt to game Google search for a living will be scrambling henceforth. Has anyone identified the new crawler bot in log files?
stop spending them, that'll do (at least it worked for me)
alternatively, you could check your settings and set the relevant option to "I don't want to help" (see the FAQ)
I don't know about you, but I get exact matches for "foo bar baz".
You can see content of experts-exchange.com "answer" using the "cached" link under the Google result, Then just scroll down past the bogus posts and you'll see the real posts.
Secondly though, if you search for X, you're asked if you meant Y, and your search results already seem to be for the popular Y result they think you meant.
Try searching for +X.
And the fact that if you ever search for the name of a piece of software the first 100 results are brothersoft.com, getyourfreeshithere.com, freesoftwarefix.com, warezfactory.com etc etc etc etc
If you don't risk failure you don't risk success.
They already have a "reviews" restrict, and they have an entire section dedicated to commerce:
http://www.google.com/search?q=laserjet%204000&hl=en&output=search&tbs=rvw:1&tbo=1
http://www.google.com/products?q=laserjet+4000&aq=f