Comments on: Google Unveils The Source of Search Results Pages in Its index

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SEO ROI » Google Is Indexing Site Searches — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:48:21 +0000

[...] Final Update: This has been disproven as being the source of the site-search-results appearing in Google’s search results. I had good reason to believe that Google Analytics was the source of this (you can see below for my original thoughts on the matter), but there’s now a clarification. My apologies to Google and to my readers for the mistake. [...]

By: Sweet...

Sweet... — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:50:50 +0000

Far out… I just discovered a bunch of high-bounce (100%) traffic in my GA account, which looked like MY INTERNAL SEARCH RESULTS being indexed in Google!!

First thing I thought was the GA Search Tracking… so I g-search “google indexing my search results page” and I find this blog post 7th from the top of the first page (it’s a fairly broad set of keywords with a fairly abstract context)… so not bad, I found this page, this info…

…and this answer!

Rad!

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New Google Form Crawling To Help Small Business Sites — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:42:50 +0000

[...] And a tip of the hat to Gab Goldenberg for helping unearth this development with his analysis of SERPs in Google’s index. [...]

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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:40:34 +0000

[...] Site Searches Are Being Indexed by Google | Key Followup: Google Reveals Source of Site Searches in Index [...]

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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:38:34 +0000

[...] Matt Cutts and this Webmaster Central post recently explained that “high quality” sites were being given special treatment - submarine crawling. Since we all know that links from high quality sites are more valuable than [...]

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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:38:10 +0000

[...] 1. Matt Cutts complimented me and SEOROI.com by recognizing that I was one of the first two people (with Mike VanDeMar of the Smackdown blog) to notice Google indexing site searches. [...]

By: Gabriel Goldenberg

Gabriel Goldenberg — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:22:53 +0000

Rishi, if they did a 360… they’re doing the same thing as they were. I think you mean a 180 . Geometry aside, I don’t know how meaningful it’ll be for their bottom line (though UK affiliates are rejoicing I’m sure…) since competitors bidding (and or ranking) on your trademarks don’t see great conversion rates, in my experience. And I’ve also had the good fortune to be involved with large gov’t entities that had lots of traffic for the trend to meaningful, and the trend was the same there.

By: Rishil

Rishil — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:34:48 +0000

Well I am glad you fished that out Gab – quite an interesting development .
RE: Google not Evil
Nope they are a business like any other, only more creative and fun. But that doesnt mean that they dont look at the bottom line look at the whole scenario in UK where they have after years of protecting brands did a 360! Going to cost people oodles of money — and I am surprised that announcement didnt boost their share prices

By: Gabriel Goldenberg

Gabriel Goldenberg — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 17:40:07 +0000

For my years or for your years or for four years? He, say that ten times fast .

More seriously, I’m concerned about Google having too much power. See here:
http://seoroi.com/case-studies/the-independent-webmasters-manifesto/

Also, how about the Chinese censorship? L444me.

My apology is for unfairly accusing Google and possible causing an undue panic amongst a limited number of webmasters. Not for my opinions about Google’s power.

As to Matt, he’s the real class act. And FYI, despite my vehement criticism of Google, I have a lot of respect for Matt and certain other Googlers.

By: Brent D. Payne

Brent D. Payne — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:26:28 +0000

Gab,

I have been telling people for your years that Google is NOT evil. They may indeed be secretive at times (as they should be with competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo) and they are most definitely focused on making money. In the end though, they think long term and they know that they need to ‘not do evil’ if they plan to play long term. This is an example of that (and example of how smart you are to discover it early).

Always give them the benefit of the doubt. I’ve yet to see a scenario from Google that I thought was rooted from evil.

Note: I am not saying you think Google is evil. I am just stating that many people jump to conclusions with Google.

KUDOS on the mention from Matt Cutts, that’s huge! Also, highly respect your public apology. Class act!

Brent D. Payne
http://www.brentdavidpayne.com