Comments on: Google 2.0: Google Universal Search

By: Luke Humble

Luke Humble — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:33:46 +0000

Surely, if Google are now listing all the different search types on one page then there is the possibility that a company could take up the entire first page with the images/videos/blog/map/news results etc?!

By: Dragan Varagic

Dragan Varagic — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:38:54 +0000

It is interesting to see the future SEO activities regarding the optimization on mentioned vertical searches. These activities are mixed with appropriate online PR activities (like a news placements, choosing different media format and places strategies, etc.).

I think that there will be the problems to manage the increased list of daily tasks for SEO people, due to new SEO activities.

By: thuhouse

thuhouse — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:33:04 +0000

Danny,
On your suggestion for new york hotels query google should just switch to google local view, don’t you think for that query at least some users are better off reaching to say hotels.com through google rather than direct listing of hotel addresses and phone..i am just taking example hotels.com ..i don’t think it is perfect but hope i convey the point.. when did someone started calling hotels one by one and booking them ..There are many folks working on very innovative solutions in local domain above and beyond the yellow page like listing of google local and that’s true for almost all the areas google universal wants to combine.. ..so i think it is good idea for google to not go too far
and be still a gateway to websites as a primary offering and treat their own allied offerings as just another web site..If Google is really any different company (and want to stay on top for long term) then they should not leave what made them great.. why don’t they have standards so that the general websites can expose data helpful to users in qualifying results up front.. google local or blog search or news search should all compete with other websites providing similar offerings and not get any special treatment..btw, i am sure it won’t happen..google hijacking traffic to squeeze dollars in short term is inevitable

By: joshmatthews

joshmatthews — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:47:26 +0000

Great coverage Danny and extremely thought provoking. I have been playing with a new competitor on the video search side covered by another blog post http://pravdam.wordpress.com/ on a purely global video search engine called VeZoom. It follows your though process in making things more personal from a global perspective. Here is what Kfir Pravda said on his blog: http://pravdam.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/vezoom-meta-aggregator-with-a-twist/ I tried this tool and was extremely impressed. It will be interesting to see how it evolves. Has anyone else tried it? Email me with your thoughts.

By: Search Engine Marketing

Search Engine Marketing — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:28:34 +0000

Great coverage of Google’s Universal Search Danny. Universal search is great for many of our small business clients – especially with the integration of local.

I appreciate many readers have concerns with the space local listings take up on the web results page, but it’s important to remember this only happens on “locally targeted” searches.

Another great feature is the addition of local options on the organic listings (drop down map and enhanced info). As the web results in Google seem to be getting less relevant on many searches, it’s good to see Google addressing the relevance of local searches.

By: katy

katy — Sat, 19 May 2007 13:59:46 +0000

Thanks, sorry about the double post. Feel free to delete one if you like.
K

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Sat, 19 May 2007 01:18:20 +0000

Thanks, Katy — I clarified now that in some cases, local results take up three spots. In other cases, they take up one. There’s more info on this from Google now in the story.

By: katy

katy — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:15:25 +0000

I noticed that you said that the new Local results will only take up one spot up in the organic search. Actually, The SEMZone reported earlier this week that within local search results, the map and 3 local businesses take up 3 SPACES in local search vs. 1, leaving 7 organic postions for the average user. http://www.thesemzone.com/2007_05_16_thesemzone_archive.html Check it out: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-47,GGLJ:en&q=raleigh+maids

By: katy

katy — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:14:00 +0000

I noticed that the comment was made that the results only take one spot up in the organic search. Actually, The SEMZone reported earlier this week that local search results with the map and 3 local businesses take up 3 SPACES in local search vs. 1, leaving 7 organic postions for the average user. http://www.thesemzone.com/2007_05_16_thesemzone_archive.html Check it out: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-47,GGLJ:en&q=raleigh+maids

By: alessandroventuri

alessandroventuri — Fri, 18 May 2007 11:39:12 +0000

Will this lead to banner/video adwords in SERPs ?