Google Search Real Estate Dominated By Single Domain For Brand Searches

Aug 19, 2010 - 9:19 am 7 by

Malcolm Coles provided screen shots of examples of how brand name with query type of searches are resulting in the search results being dominated by a single domain.

One example he provided was a search for [apple help], but that is one of many examples:

Brand Names & Search Terms in Google

Others are seeing this as well. WebmasterWorldhas their own thread on a related topic. There is a Sphinn thread on Malcolm's post.

Is this a bug? Is this a new Google feature? Is this the most relevant/diverse set of results that Google says they want to provide?

Forum discussion at Sphinn & WebmasterWorld.

 

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