Mike Grehan says...

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Google expanding sitelinks with sitesearch?

This may have been mentioned elsewhere, but I spotted something very different in a Google results set at the weekend. I was planning a trip to Scotland and had been checking trough suitable hotels in the town of Ayr on the west coast.

My first search brought back a list of ten local results at the top of the pile which was quite helpful. I then went off at a tangent doing something else and only later realized that I still hadn't booked the hotel.

Lazy, as I am, I simply searched on the name of the hotel group at Google, to click through to the main site and then search for the Ayr hotel. What I saw really surprised me. Take a look.

I've seen results with up to eight sitelinks before. But I've never seen sitelinks with a sitesearch box combined. It's certainly new to me.

Of course, I simply typed - scotland - in the search box and was presented with this.

It's a list of all of their Scottish properties. I then simply clicked on the link to the Ayr property and booked a room.

Pretty neat, I think.

Staying on the subject of unusual results at Google. From time-to-time I've seen the error shown below on certain queries. I laughed this time though. I queried the name of a certain high profile search marketing person and got this:

1 Comments:

  • At 10:23 PM, Blogger Julian said…

    I've heard some grumbling from large websites about the new google "search megasite.com" because it is reducing the user flow through Ad covered pages.

    Its just like the milk in the back of the grocer. Damn Chip aisle gets me very time.

     

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