Google Sometimes Not Grouping Results From Same Domain?
Barry Welford at Cre8asite Forums spotted and screen captured an interesting Google slip up earlier. Typically, if Google displays a search result from the same domain name on a page, it will group that result (i.e. indent the result) under the first result. But Barry Welford spotted a case, which I cannot reproduce, of Google showing a second listing as a stand alone result in the Google search results.
Here is a screen capture from Barry W:
This is far from common Google practices. What it looks like to me, now at least, is the norm:
Was it a temporary bug?
Forum discussion at Cre8asite Forums.
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rustybrick in Google Optimization at April 7, 2008 7:57 AM
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This is pretty common.
Check out this search with 2 yelp results ungrouped:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=il+fornaio+beverly+hills&spell=1
...and this one with 2 of aol cityguides:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cityguide&btnG=Google+Search
I can find a ton of these examples. They're all over the place.
Posted by mike at April 7, 2008 09:58