Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google universal search'

A Google Web Search Help thread reports that Google has been the target of spammers who are trying to push their pornographic videos into Google. This is nothing new, but the terms these spammers are using now include Holocaust related...

Posted on September 30, 2009 9:11 AM

The Google blog announced that Google is now showing more local results in web search for more generic queries. This is something that was noticed before the announcement but now it is officially confirmed by Google. This means that searches...

Posted on April 8, 2009 8:28 AM

There are only so many results on a search page. You do a search at Google, you typically get about ten results. Those results are either web pages, videos, news results, blog posts, images and so on. Video results seem...

Posted on November 19, 2008 8:28 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting seeing an spike in the number of instances Google is showing Google Book Search results within the web results. A few other members have agreed in seeing a larger number of book results in the...

Posted on September 26, 2008 8:20 AM

About three weeks ago, I covered a story at Search Engine Land on Google Blogoscoped finding Google testing two video results, in the web search results, on the same line. Here is a picture: It appears Google is continuing the...

Posted on September 15, 2008 7:48 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that Google is now placing product results, for some searches, in the middle of the search results. For example, a search on ipod nano returns the Google Shopping results in the fourth listing, as opposed to...

Posted on August 11, 2008 8:23 AM

Ever since Google launched Universal Search, SEMs have been trying to leverage it to get their site into the first position within the vertical search engine that is ranking in the top slot. So for searches like new york hotel...

Posted on July 14, 2008 7:26 AM

Google Universal Search has been around for a while now. But today, Sam asked me to look at a search for scuba diving, which shows the local results smack in the middle of the page. Now, Sam (via Tamar) did...

Posted on May 23, 2008 12:23 PM

Warning, clicking on the following Google search result may return an image of extreme pornographic nature. The image is of a woman's vagina and is found on a pornographic site, but the image appears to be hosted on Google's Blogger...

Posted on March 19, 2008 6:50 AM

Cre8asite Forums is holding a small poll of their members, asking if it is harder to optimize for Google's Universal Search as opposed to OneBox results? Right now, the majority of people feel it is not harder because it "follows...

Posted on June 26, 2007 7:10 AM

There has been a lot of talk lately about Google's new Universal Search interface. Obviously big changes like this precipitate discussion on ways to make it useful to the SEO and the webmaster.The pressing question of the day, is how...

Posted on May 23, 2007 3:43 PM