Google Discover Is The -1 Screen Or Position -1

Apr 11, 2019 - 8:46 am 1 by

Google Minus One

We have positions one through ten in Google, the main search results. We have position zero, the featured snippets. Heck, we even have zero results where Google just shows the answer.

Now we have position minus one or screen -1 as Google's Malte Ubl called it on Twitter yesterday. Malte who is big with the AMP team said "Google’s Discover product (the -1 screen on Android among other surfaces)." He was talking about the new Google Discover report and calling Google Discover the -1 screen.

It makes sense - it is search results without the query. So it happens even before you do a search and thus it is a predictive thing.

So there you go, we can call Google Discover traffic position minus one. I think it has a ring to it...

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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