Google: Product Results in Search Results
November 17, 2008
A happy quack to the reader who alerted us to what appear to be a test of new Google results features. The user’s query appears to be passed against the products listed in Google Products. The display uses the "universal search" method of embedding additional results in the laundry list. In the example shown below, the user searches for "pavers"; that is, bricks in American English. The system generates a list of results. The Shopping Results provide hot links to companies listing their goods in Google Products and the prices for the displayed products. Note that the ad matching points to advertisers with pavers but not companies listed in the nested results. A link to a video about "pavers" appears in the results list. When Hillary Clinton was running for president, similar functions were implemented on the results for a query for "Hillary Clinton". The reader who alerted us to this "pavers" query pointed out that the integrations of products in search results was, to him, a new function on the Google.co.uk site. Here’s a screen shot with the features the reader called to our attention:
If you see other Google features, please, send them along. I will include them in this Web log.
Stephen Arnold, November 17, 2008
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Thanks for your comment. I posted input from a reader and included the provided screen shot. Check out the editorial policy of this Web log. Nothing is new. Therefore, if you want “new news”, you should look elsewhere. Telling me something is old when the Web log recycles old information is not useful to the addled goose.
Stephen Arnold, November 18, 2008