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Google Continues Testing Navigational Link Placement

It appears we have more sightings of Google experimenting with additional navigational link placement ideas. These are links that let you reach various Google search services beyond web search.


On Friday, we reported about navigational links appearing at the top of on the Google home page.

Later, Google Blogoscoped added that they are also testing the same concept on the internal search pages.

Next, the PPC Blog spotted Google testing the same navigational links in a box directly above the sponsored results.

Here is one image showing all the various tests:

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