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Thursday, August 02, 2007

A guaranteed number one listing at Google!

I've been burning up my keyboard for the past two weeks none stop writing. So I've had little time to read any of the latest news around the various other blogs, forums etc. So, maybe this has been covered in great detail elsewhere. But I had to just quickly break and blog this when I saw it a few minutes ago. I certainly haven't seen this one in the States. However, it may have been the talk of the industry in the UK while I've been away for all I know. Still worth a mention though.

I was researching some stuff at Google UK and noticed a new little feature at the bottom of the page on many of the searches I did. I did a search for - digital cameras - to test how "universal" the feature is.

Take a look at the screenshot below at the very last item.(Click on the image to make it larger)

And now take a look at what happens when you click the plus sign.

Yes, you get to input the URL of a favourite page on the query subject, click the button and , of course, you're taken to your Google account to log in to your personalized search. Next time you search for digital cameras, your favourite page is up top with a little marker.

I've written a great deal about end user data and how in search it's mainly implicit data, but explicit would be much more useful. What a neat little way to get someone to be explicit.

Hehe! Now it is possible to guarantee a number one hit at Google :-)

16 Comments:

  • At 6:00 AM, Blogger Matt said…

    Hi, I am from India and here I can't see that extra link at the bottom :(

    Pratheep

     
  • At 7:07 AM, Blogger Vinod said…

    I tried a search on both Google.com and Google.co.in , the 'suggest link' option does not appear for me as well.

     
  • At 10:32 AM, Blogger macewan said…

    I'm not seeing it either.

     
  • At 11:48 AM, Blogger Lane said…

    I don't see that link, but I do see a link that says, "Dissatisfied? Help us improve." Clicking it opens a new tab where you can say why you were dissatisfied and another field where you can enter a URL you thought you should see. The thank-you says, "We will use your responses to help us in our never-ending quest to improve the quality of Google search."

     
  • At 2:01 PM, Blogger jane grath said…

    This post has been removed by the author.

     
  • At 2:02 PM, Blogger jane grath said…

    hi,
    i cant see the link at the bottom...

     
  • At 6:08 PM, Blogger sandra said…

    Hi I can't see that post at the bottom either in the US but it does show for that specific search of digital camera reviews only in the UK. Other categories don't show that link in the UK. Not a good suggestion because it doesn't work.
    Sandra

     
  • At 8:09 AM, Blogger Dr. David Klein said…

    Congratulations on the link on MattCutts blog!

    Cool feature you point out.

    dk

     
  • At 8:26 AM, Blogger seo said…

    Really a cool feature! i hope that search will be better after users will be able to "vote" in this way. Good job!

     
  • At 12:49 PM, Blogger KI4WLR said…

    Maybe this is old news to, but try this one... you can now do a "blog search" and at the bottom of the search you can add that search to your google reader. This sort of combines a feed and a google alert.

    Like I said, maybe this is old news, but being able to add a search string in a reader instead of a specific page is great.

    Go to http://blogsearch.google.com/ and type anything in, at the bottom you will see three options for keeing up to date with that search string.

    Scott, KI4WLR
    http://www.ki4wlr.com

     
  • At 1:50 AM, Blogger Michael Fleischner - Marketing Expert said…

    Mike... you're the man! I can't believe you made the "Cutt"... pun intended. Glad to see a fellow marketer hit the jackpost.

    Michael
    MarketingScoop.com

     
  • At 7:33 AM, Blogger Ash Haque said…

    Doesn't appear in google.ca

    :-(

     
  • At 7:34 AM, Blogger Ash Haque said…

    Doesn't appear in google.ca

    :-(

     
  • At 12:02 AM, Blogger Brendan said…

  • At 11:48 AM, Blogger cristian said…

    For a complete makeover of the bedroom you must surely have memory foam mattresses. If you don't have that, you can't say:"my bedroom has been pimped".

     
  • At 11:49 AM, Blogger cristian said…

    For a complete makeover of the bedroom you must surely have memory foam mattresses. If you don't have that, you can't say:"my bedroom has been pimped".
    shalalala

     

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