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From The Isn’t It Ironic Dept: Google Product Search’s Results Show Up In Google

Apr 30, 2007 at 9:47pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Remember how Google said recently that it might crack down on listings pages that are simply search results themselves? Reader Michael Nguyen dropped an email today to point out how, ironically, Google is now listing pages from its own Google Product Search service exactly as it has warned others not to do. OK, settle down back there, those of you having a chuckle. Embarrassing? Yes! Intentional? Almost certainly not. Let's take a look. Try a search for snake light, and you'll get this: See down there at the bottom? Two pages from Google Product Search showing up in the top results: I [...]

Google News Results Now Live In Web Search Results

Apr 24, 2007 at 10:46pm ET by Chris Sherman

As we reported last week, Google is now including news results in web search results when your query terms trigger relevant results. The results are clearly marked with a link for "News results for..." above the news results, as shown here: I've asked Google how the new changes will affect algorithms. Stay tuned.... [...]

Google To Integrate News With Web Search Results

Apr 19, 2007 at 3:00pm ET by Chris Sherman

Soon, Google will quietly begin changing the way it blends news results and standard web search results, co-mingling links to news sources and web pages if your search terms are relevant to current news events. The new format will replace OneBox news links that have normally appeared at the top of a search result page, such as shown below: [NOTE: Originally Google was to roll this change out on Thursday, when we posted. Now the company says it won't happen for at least another week. We've updated timing references to reflect this.] Shortly, news results will no longer be inserted into w [...]

Google Officially Releases Plus Box Feature Again

Mar 20, 2007 at 4:15pm ET by Barry Schwartz

The Google Blog finally announced the Google Plus Box feature that we have been reporting on since last year. In fact, this is not the first time we had confirmation from Google on the plus box. Matt Cutts of Google wrote about it on December 9, 2006, after several of bloggers spotted tests of it in November 2006 (see Michael, Ionut, Philipp, and Barry). The Google Blog confirms there are finance plus boxes and maps plus boxes but does not mention the video plus box. [...]

Google Video Plus Box Results

Feb 26, 2007 at 9:20am ET by Barry Schwartz

Philipp Lenssen spotted plus box results at Google for Google Video results. He noticed it for a search on nightwish videos, but I do not see it myself. For a screen capture check out Philipp's Google Blogoscoped. We have covered two other plus box results in the past. Google "Plus Box" Puts Maps In Search ResultsGoogle Finance Plus Signs In Google Search Results I personally like many of these implementations. [...]

Google Finance Plus Signs In Google Search Results

Feb 19, 2007 at 3:27pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Threadwatch spotted plus signs within Google search results that contain Google Finance information. A search at one Google data center on computers brings back the follow results: Clicking on the plus sign, opens a Google Finance preview. This is similar to Google Maps plus sign in the Google search results. Hat tip to Google Operating Systems also. [...]

Google Adds Local Reviews In Search Results

Jan 30, 2007 at 8:38am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Google Blog announced that when you conduct searches at Google.com for local specific information, you may get local reviews and business comparisons. For example a search on pizza 10010 returns three results, all with five stars, from pizza restaurants in NYC. Here is a screen capture: It also works with movies 10010. On the business front, a search on web 10901, brings up a local result for my business (RustyBrick) and two of my competitors, with no reviews. Other search engines return similar results. For example, Ask.com for a search on pizza 10010 brings up 3 local results wi [...]

Q&A With Marissa Mayer, Google VP, Search Products & User Experience

Jan 26, 2007 at 12:47pm ET by Gord Hotchkiss

Marissa Mayer has been the driving force behind Google's Spartan look and feel from the very earliest days. In this wide-ranging interview, I talked with Marissa about everything from interface design to user behavior to the biggest challenge still to be solved with search as we currently know it. I had asked for the interview because of some notable findings in our most recent eye tracking study. I won't go into the findings in any great depth here, because Chris Sherman will be doing a deep dive soon. But for the purpose of setting the background for Marissa's interview, here are some very [...]

New Google Checkout Promo; New Google Trust Worries

Jan 16, 2007 at 2:25pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Gary Price pointed out something new to me on Google, the ability to filter product search results from merchants using Google Checkout. But more important, Google's promoting this new feature right within its main search results. That move, along with just having dropped map links to competitors and in the wake of last month's tips fiasco, rings alarm bells that Google's not thinking clearly about the best way to balance promoting its own products and the trust of users. Here's what you get at the top of results for a search for sd cards 128mb: Note, Jan 17: Ionut Alex notes he's seen thi [...]

‘Reverse Engineering’ Google Local Results

Dec 17, 2006 at 11:22am ET by Greg Sterling

Search engine marketer Mike Blumenthal on his blog, "Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local," has been doing an interesting investigation to try and understand the Google Maps and local search algorithm and what factors influence those rankings. As a basic matter, Google uses different algorithms for general and local search results. I spoke with Mike on Friday, and he said that one of the surprising takeaways from his ongoing research is that Google also appeared to be using different factors to determine results in the top three local results that appear on Google.com ("OneBox") and the ra [...]

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