Comments on: Google Universal Search – A Major Update to Interface & Algorithm

By: Yahoo India Launches “Glue” Pages « Web Development, Design, Hosting and SEO Glasgow UK

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:16:28 +0000

[...] new pages are not quite equivalent with Google’s Universal Search blended SERPs, as the various types of information are broken out into separate columns. Instead [...]

By: SiteProNews » Blog Archive » Environmentally Friendly Web Site Marketing: Recycle Your Content!

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:12:21 +0000

[...] Universal Search Model that Google rolled out in May this year incorporates web search results with related results from [...]

By: Eu

Eu — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:05:28 +0000

One friend of mine noticed that the searching is more difficult – she can’t find good results because of the images, blogs and news which appears in top. So she decided to use Yahoo instead. For a normal person (non IT professional) used with the regular searching, the new way of results displaying is very difficult. Annoying. People don’t want to click and choose more options if they don’t have to. So for them Google new look is not a desirable one.

By: gringo

gringo — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:39:16 +0000

I have always loved A9. I think it is only logical to go this route and I canâ€™t wait to see what happens.

By: ZeMMoZ

ZeMMoZ — Thu, 24 May 2007 12:04:52 +0000

Take A look at that blog post about Future Of Google Search

http://www.squidoo.com/predictions

By: LOHAD - random rumblings on marketing and more » Blog Archive » Google Universal Changes SEO

Mon, 21 May 2007 11:34:17 +0000

[...] This blog post from Marketing Pilgrim, this blog post from PC World and this blog post from Seer Interactive make for some pretty heavy reading, but if you’re concerned about SEO issues they’re worth your time. [...]

By: blog.vortexdna.com » Blog Archive » What is relevant? Only you can decide

Sun, 20 May 2007 21:47:24 +0000

[...] Andy Beal reported on Google’s latest Universal Search news this week. Here’s me quoting him quoting Google: â€œGoogle has continued to concentrate on improving the quality of search,â€ said Udi Manber, vice president of engineering at Google. â€œThe level and speed of search innovation at Google has increased. Most of this innovation addresses basic ranking algorithms and is often not obvious to users. Users just see more accurate results, more often, in more languages, which is our primary goal.â€ [...]

By: Google Universal Search Changes Everything, SEM, SEO

Google Universal Search Changes Everything, SEM, SEO — Sat, 19 May 2007 04:10:22 +0000

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Fri, 18 May 2007 20:41:18 +0000

[...] Learn about Google’s new Universal Search from Andy Beal. [...]

By: Big Changes at Google » Aspects of Home Business Blog

Big Changes at Google » Aspects of Home Business Blog — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:39:13 +0000

[...] Looks to be true this time, though. According to Marketing Pilgrim they’ve made changes to their interface and algorithm. I did a quick search on “home business” to see how it looks: [...]

By: iPhone Marketing an example of how Google Universal is going to change SEO!

iPhone Marketing an example of how Google Universal is going to change SEO! — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:58:08 +0000

[...] Hey Guys and Gals, all the rage yesterday was the launch of Google Universal â€“ people are calling for the demise of SEO as we know it.Â Well of course this is the demise of traditional SEO, well for a certain type of SEO.Â Just looking at yourself as an SEO â€“ and not a marketer is where the demise will definitely occur.Â As SEOâ€™s those that understand marketing will be fineâ€¦so what if Google shows videos, maps, local results, and books in the SERPS, you have to learn how to get your clients optimized in areas that are not just algorithmic.Â Optimizing a video with tags and metadata, creating a video worth actually looking at that will attract links and comments, this is just one way to tackle this issue.Â Being that it is Google though, I doubt weâ€™re going to see many revver videos, we will probably see more Youtube and Google Videos in the SERPS. I would also recommend making sure that you are optimized for Google product search (used to be Froogle) as when/if products or product links show up in SERPS youâ€™ll want to be there. [...]

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 18 May 2007 06:57:12 +0000

As Google makes our search “behavior training” more complex (we are being trained), it will first feel inefficient. Some day (hopefully soon) the search results by this method might become a better value than the seeming simplicity that we were experiencing.

Providing more unexpected information to the user is not necessarily better in my eyes. When it becomes expected, than it might increase in usefulness.

I’m all for choices, so why not provide both types of searches?

Could it possibly get more complicated for the poor advertisers???? The complexity of tracking the adoption of this new search behavior is going to be insane, perhaps forcing SEOs to use proprietary tracking algorithms. Maybe Google’s???

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 18 May 2007 05:01:13 +0000

Great Post, sorry I’m a bit late to comment on it.

This will have a huge impact on not only SEO masters, but also on content publishers in general. In order to have a better chance at being one of the top results content publishers will need to produce not only written content but also video, images, and I’m waiting for audio to jump on board the searchable google bandwagon.

Aloha,
Erik

By: Google’s new Universal Search - big changes afoot | ChillyCool Web Digger

Thu, 17 May 2007 23:07:00 +0000

[...] Marketing Pilgrim has a very good article explaining in detail how the new Universal Search is going to work.How will it affect SEO? [...]

By: Matt Keegan

Matt Keegan — Thu, 17 May 2007 22:17:25 +0000

The impact on our SERPs could be something. With images included, your Paris Hilton site could be beat out by images of her highness herself. Yuck.

By: engineering

engineering — Thu, 17 May 2007 18:02:18 +0000

google again proved that they are the leader of search engine ….the major change of their search anatomy is really appreciating ..actually the new interface is a silent caution for his antagonist microsoft when a rumor in air spreading in market that microsoft is going to buy yahoo,other search giant.The combination of interface oncharcter,image,history,social result & also important is latent symentic indexing of google is create a new smart search platform what gives google an untouchable position…..

By: 5 Star Affiliate Marketing Blogs, Google and SEO Blog » NEW Google Universal Search - HUGE Challenge, Hidden Opportunity?

Thu, 17 May 2007 16:43:40 +0000

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By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:59:58 +0000

@Brian – if you can clone me, I’ll have the time to put it together. Tell you what, ask that question for next week’s podcast and I’ll answer it then.

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:51:30 +0000

andy, jeremy….

How about some how to’s now on video and image optimization

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:27:52 +0000

it really isn’t anything special. in fact at times the variety of results gets to be quite annoying and frustrating.
at first many will most likely be dissatisfied with this migration but will end up getting used to it as google improves their algorithms for matching queries and verifies their matches via their query rating department