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Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her by ErikAugust on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @03:58PM (#6890650)
Comes up first for me - https://www.google.com/#q=portrait+quilts

Edit: HA! Sorry, it's an ad! I thought it was the first organic result but it was actually the second ad!

I can barely perceive that shade of yellow indicating that it's an ad. Took two or three takes.

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Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her by 3JPLW on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:04PM (#6890691)
It's an ad for me. Of course, Google's been doing all it can to make ads look like organic results. Looks like she bought into the protection racket.
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Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her by mynameishere on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:12PM (#6890744)
Maybe you're being funny, but it's scary to think that google has a quiet policy of letting businesses develop revenues through organic search and then intentionally changing the algos.
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Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her by EliRivers on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:05PM (#6890703)
It's often interesting to perform the same search on google.com using different proxies. Sometimes I get things in my proxied results that don't turn up in my unproxied (and vice-versa).
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Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her by pflats on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:01PM (#6890669)
Doesn't come up on page 1 at all for me for photo or portrait quilts.

edit: An ad for portraitquilts.com shows up first in the ads sidebar, though.

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Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her by brent_noorda on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:07PM (#6890709)
It came up for me in the adwords section, either at the top or on the right, for the first two pages. But I scrolled through five pages of results and in never came up as an "organic" result.
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Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her by cbhl on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:21PM (#6890808)
I wonder if this is the result of Google trying to deduplicate results that both show up organically and in Adwords.
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Re:My sister's a quilter and Google mugged her by toll on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @04:04PM (#6890687)
It isn't in the search results for me, but there is an ad for portraitquilts.com. So i guess they bit the bullet and paid for advertising.
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