Google Adds “Page Preview” To Search Options

Nov 3, 2009 at 9:51am ET by Barry Schwartz

Google Operating System noticed Google has added a new search option named "page preview." If you go to Google, search on something and click on "show options," you can then look towards the button on the left hand side and click on "page previews." For example, here is a view of a search for apple with page preview selected. As you can see, Google adds thumbnails of the page directly on the search results. Page previews is nothing new to search, Ask.com did it with binoculars and there are many Firefox add-ons that add page previews to the Google search results. [...]

Filed in: Google: Search Customization, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search, Top News

Google Caffeine: Google’s New Search Engine Index

Aug 10, 2009 at 7:56pm ET by Vanessa Fox

Google has just unveiled a "secret project" of "next-generation architecture for Google's web search". This new architecture appears to include crawling, indexing, and ranking changes. For the first time, Google isn't simply incorporating these changes into their existing infrastructure or replacing it. Instead, they're providing a developer preview and are asking webmasters and power searchers to try it out and give them feedback. Unlike Google's now-defunct SearchMash, which was intended for search experiments that wouldn't necessarily be incorporated into Google's main web search, the caffe [...]

Filed in: Google: SEO, Google: Search Customization, Top News

Google’s Search Suggestions Change On Second Search

Aug 10, 2009 at 9:29am ET by Barry Schwartz

I am not sure if this is new, but when you look at the first search suggestions given to you by Google and then look at the second set of search suggestions, Google will change them, assuming you were not happy with the first set of results. Google Operating System just pointed this out and I have never seen it mentioned prior (doesn't mean it hasn't been mentioned prior). Here is an example of this in action: (1) Search suggestions by Google for the word [search]: (2) Then I land on the search results page and try it again, and notice that the suggestions are different: [...]

Filed in: Google: Search Customization, Google: Web History & Search History, Google: Web Search

What Happened To Google’s ‘Commitment To Transparency’?

Jul 16, 2009 at 2:44am ET by Matt McGee

It's no secret that Google -- and other search engines -- uses a variety of factors to customize search results: your search history, your location, and so forth. If you misspell a word, search engines often guess what you intended to type and show auto-corrected results. But on Google's search results pages, it's becoming a secret when these changes are happening. Google Blogoscoped writes about Google ignoring some search terms altogether (as if it knows better than you what you meant to search for). The example in that post is a search for "dictionary cleaning up suddenly," in which Goo [...]

Filed in: Google: Search Customization, Google: User Interface, Google: Web History & Search History, Google: Web Search, Top News

Hoping To Improve People Search, Google Launches “Profile Results”

Apr 21, 2009 at 4:00pm ET by Danny Sullivan

Ever searched for yourself on Google and come away dissatisfied, especially if someone else you share a name with seems to dominate the results? Ever looked for someone else and been disappointed that you couldn't find the person you wanted? Google's new "Profile Results" launching today aim to correct both problems. Since the end of 2007, Google has allowed people to create Google Profile pages for use with certain Google services. For example, if you created content in Google Maps, your Google Profile let you share who you were with others using that service. The same profile also [...]

Filed in: Features: General, Google: Accounts & Profiles, Google: OneBox, Plus Box & Direct Answers, Google: OpenSocial, Google: Search Customization, How To: SEO, Legal: Privacy, Search Engines: People Search, Top News

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