Comments on: Google Smacks Down UK SEO Companies

By: video seo

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Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:18:26 +0000

[...] protestors. That combined with the news that Google are also insisting that us jolly Brits should talk like Americans has meant that there is plenty to discuss – however, none of that is getting any time in my head as [...]

By: David Edmundson-Bird

David Edmundson-Bird — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:31:36 +0000

There is of course the deeper obsession with spelling and how right or wrong our American cousins are. American English (as opposed to the language that also includes newer insert words from Hispanic and African-American communities) and spelling is based on the language of our joint 17th and 18th century forefathers. “Optimization” is indeed the correct “ancient” spelling of the word. As is “Optimize” (check the OED which insists that -ize is the suffix). Optimisation and Optimise are alternative spellings but not regarded as the main spelling. It is only later into the 19th Century that we see the S creeping into the UK version of English across a variety of s/z words.

Its Latin root Optimus (best) make it a truly proper geekfest word. I blame lazy (perhaps snobbish) 1970s and 1980s English teaching for the UK obsession with S as beginning of the English suffix.

By: Andy Nattan

Andy Nattan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:11:18 +0000

Undoubtedly. It's not just SEO though – if they're rolling out this change, any key phrase that Americans spell wrong is going to be affected.

If it's a deliberate tweak, I don't have the slightest idea why they'd make it.

By: Matt Davies

Matt Davies — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:08:11 +0000

Hi Andy

I go without reading your blog for one day and look what happens, eh?

TBH, I never *really* thought this was a deliberate snub to SEOs, and it's not surprise to find out it's something bigger. The fact is though, even if it's inadvertant, this change by Google COULD have massive repurcusions for some of the effected companies.

By: Andy Nattan

Andy Nattan — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:58:19 +0000

You could've done a bit more research. It's not a snub for SEO companies, they're correcting multi-word search phrases.

http://www.unmemorabletitle.co.uk/is-google-aut...