> Come on, there’s no absolute correctness for a result in being in Google’s first versus second answer.
“Absolute correctness” is an irrelevant standard. Order can affect satisfaction without "absolute correctness" being a thing that can even be assessed meaningfully.
> Even Google doesn’t change the order of answers based on the user’s context.
Yes, it does. [0]
> Otherwise it wouldn’t say in Google Web Console “your site appears in nth position”
I think that reflects the experience of a no-context user (e.g., not logged in or otherwise tied to a history to provide context.)
“Absolute correctness” is an irrelevant standard. Order can affect satisfaction without "absolute correctness" being a thing that can even be assessed meaningfully.
> Even Google doesn’t change the order of answers based on the user’s context.
Yes, it does. [0]
> Otherwise it wouldn’t say in Google Web Console “your site appears in nth position”
I think that reflects the experience of a no-context user (e.g., not logged in or otherwise tied to a history to provide context.)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_searching#Automatic...