Most of you may remember that I pissed off @MattCutts while he was off hiking a few weeks ago. How did I do this? Well, I was doing some Amazon Mechanical Turk testing to figure out if I could manipulate the Google Suggest results for ‘brent payne seo’.

Most powerful background information on this test is listed at: http://www.brentdpayne.com/index.php/photos/google-suggest-manipulation-test-start-of-experiment-stats-20100812/ and related posts to it (including a post where Matt Cutts comments) are listed by going to the following URL: http://www.brentdpayne.com/?s=google+suggest

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Well . . . after today’s launch of Google Instant. I find that ONLY the exact search query of ‘brent payne seo’ shows what I am dubbing a ‘Blank Instant’ page. Meaning that the term shows no results in Google Instant and has the ‘press Enter to search.’ text displayed beneath it.

Meanwhile . . . if you take a look at the Google Instant results for ‘brent payne se’ you get the following:

And if you type in any other random letter, such as ‘brent payne seop’ or ‘brent payne seom’ you get Google Instant results for those…

So . . . I am 100% certain that the term ‘brent payne seo’ has been banned from Google Suggest and, by extension, also banned by Google Instant.

NOW THAT IS VERY VERY INTERESTING!

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Brent Payne SEO Consultant | Brent Payne SEO Director

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