A thread at DigitalPoint Forums points out that Google has changed how they handle navigational like queries, such as typing into Google, www.seroundtable.com. I am sure other threads have it since that Google update, but I have never seen it.
In the past, Google only showed one result and gave you options such as find similar pages, see the cache, links to the page and so on. They used to look like:
Show Google's cache of www.seroundtable.com Find web pages that are similar to www.seroundtable.com Find web pages that link to www.seroundtable.com Find web pages from the site www.seroundtable.com Find web pages that contain the term "www.seroundtable.com
That no longer is the case, Google now seems to be matching it as a normal search on that keyword phrase. So it looks for pages that contain a keyword match for www.seroundtable.com. It seems it may favor sites with the www.seroundtable.com in the URL, file name, etc. but it also matches pages with that string within the body copy.
Yahoo! Search handles www.seroundtable.com search with a site command like function, that lists all the pages on the seroundtable.com domain.
Ask.com handles the search similar to Google, but they place a Smart RSS Answer at the top.
MSN handles the search like Yahoo, a site command search style.
Will this change the landscape of navigational searches? How many people go to Google to type in homedepot.com? And now when they do that, they may find competitors?
Forum discussion at DigitalPoint Forums.
