Google Gives Gov’t Top Spot
Friday, January 5th, 2007;
-- Jordan McCollum |
Has anyone else seen this before:
I actually checked a similar ’symptom’ keyword for a potential client last night and noticed this change today. Here’s a close up of the change:
Notice the result just under the paid listings: the NIH or National Institutes of Health. If the .gov didn’t give it away, this is an institution of the US government. I’m not sure how NIH got in above the one box type refinements Google’s had on SERPs for a while now–conspiracy theories welcome.
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January 6th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Hi Jordan,
No conspiracy.
That looks like a Google Q&A result to me, by both the placement and the way the link is referenced (the “according to”).
Same kind of result that you get for a search for something like:
Derek Jeter birthplace
Cheers.
January 6th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Bill–Ah, right. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Q&A result. I was surprised to see this one pop up overnight, but it appears as though you are correct, sir.
Thanks!