Comments on: Google Testing New Results

By: Pip

Pip — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 14:23:00 +0000

Anybody noticed any crazy shit going on this last week or so ??

By: john

john — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 04:22:09 +0000

Really this is good.
Google displays one or more alternate queries together with a preview of their top results.
John

By: kyle

kyle — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:10:40 +0000

Do you think shopowners will eventually open up their inventory sytems so that you could one day google local products based on their barcode or product number? For example, lets say you live at 123 fake st and you want to buy SpeedStick "Ocean Breeze" deodorant. The idea is that you could put that word into google "Product" and find the closest store that offers what you're loking for. This could of course ultimately be linked to credit cards so you could buy the product before you got to the store. Obviously, deodorant isn't the best example, but you see where I'm going...

whatcha think?

By: Michael Zimmer

Michael Zimmer — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:05:53 +0000

From the PR: "For these searches, which are both commercial and non-commercial in nature, Google displays one or more alternate queries together with a preview of their top results."

What do they mean by "commercial an dnon-commercial in nature"? That some of the alternate queries/results are paid placements (aka "commercial")?

By: Michael Zimmer

Michael Zimmer — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:03:48 +0000

"certainly Google would never do paid inclusion"

How can you be so sure?

By: Brokerblogger

Brokerblogger — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 01:21:37 +0000

John,

For Search Engines, Yoda says, "The path to the Dark Side, a fear of loss of relevancy and traffic is."

Bill Kelm

By: google.dirson.com

google.dirson.com — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:11:07 +0000

John, check this:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ui-fun-better-queries/

By: Notsocommon Team

Notsocommon Team — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:33:24 +0000

Perhaps google should add a "what is this" link next to the suggestion to offer web users an explanation of the new feature.
The concept is a good one and should offer users a window into a more relevant search before being forced to conduct one themselves.
Link to Notsocommoncents.com post

By: Kendall Willets

Kendall Willets — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:14:44 +0000

It looks like it offers a refinement of the query based on statistical support. Try “Francisco”; it will suggest a “San” in front. My guess is that it’s mined from their query logs.

By: google.dirson.com

google.dirson.com — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:49:01 +0000

Gary Price talked about it on Aug 5:
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050805-110030

They'ren't "commercial" results among organic ones, but -as Gary claimed- a suggestion of other keywords to be searched.

In the case of "on demand", Google's clustering system suggests "comcast on demand", since they are thousand of pages including these three words.

I think it could be useful for some searches, but perhaps a little confusing for some people.