Comments on: Google Maps & YouTube Are Big Traffic Winners in Google Universal Update http://searchengineland.com/google-maps-youtube-are-big-traffic-winners-in-google-universal-update-11421 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:39:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lucky Lester http://searchengineland.com/google-maps-youtube-are-big-traffic-winners-in-google-universal-update-11421/comment-page-1#comment-2778 Lucky Lester Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:48:30 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-maps-youtube-are-big-traffic-winners-in-google-universal-update-11421.php#comment-2778 Wasn’t the whole point behind the Universal search implementation about driving traffic to some of the lesser used Google products? Not that YouTube.com needed the traffic but by placing even more emphasis on this Google product, I would imagine that the YouTube competitors might be receiving even less traffic now. Good work Google, making it about your product(s) and NOT the websites you originally set out to serve. Oddly enough whenever I think about Universal Search these days I can’t help but hum the Police hit “Wrapped around your finger” and more specifically the line… “When you will find your servant is your master” Wasn’t the whole point behind the Universal search implementation about driving traffic to some of the lesser used Google products? Not that YouTube.com needed the traffic but by placing even more emphasis on this Google product, I would imagine that the YouTube competitors might be receiving even less traffic now. Good work Google, making it about your product(s) and NOT the websites you originally set out to serve.

Oddly enough whenever I think about Universal Search these days I can’t help but hum the Police hit “Wrapped around your finger” and more specifically the line… “When you will find your servant is your master”

]]>