Making your mobile search faster – Google Inside Search BlogGoogle adds expandable sitelinks, or "quick links" (essentially sitelinks within sitelinks), as well as an experimental blue "Quick view" badge that only works with Wikipedia pages.
Links to "arctic fox") When there's nothing else to look at… (Links to "watching paint dry") If blank space is your thing… (Links to "plain white paper") With so many delicious flavors available, most people still choose vanilla (Links to the Bing...
But today, as search continues to grow, thanks to social media, the search results pages include not only blue links, but also blogs, video, images, news, press releases, and customer reviews. Newsworthy stories, images, video, social links and...
The first was a mock screen of a traditional "10 blue links" search. Designed to show answers, not links to answers, Facebook showed two separate search screens. A screen shows the familiar Facebook blue bar header, turned into a search box.
The ultimate goal was to remove the traditional "10 blue links" experience from search, replacing it with "a more fun, tablet-appropriate .image-rich layout. While Bing's approach still hasn't completely removed the traditional 10 blue links, Izik...
Instead of going after easy links, why not work on building relationships with bloggers and work on writing guest posts that can add value to their site and community while benefitting you with exposure to their audience and possibly building a...
It's almost too many blue links now and with the more visual social sidebar winning the competition for attention, the ads are now too easy to miss - you can just skip over that middle block. Following yesterday's update to Snapshots, Bing cleaned...
While every search engine is trying to go beyond the "10 blue links" type of result sets, Ask.com's vision is to become a portal for exploratory experiences where users don't just ask questions and get answers, but also discover new information...
Tracking ‘blended rank’ (i.e.rank of the big blue links amongst all types of search results). SERPs now not only include blue links but also images, video, places, and news, among others. Links – Domain- and backlink-based
Find your voting location and hours” which links to Google’s Politics for voters who can search for their station and see a ballot summary by searching their home address. Google is using its homepage today to remind people it’s Election Day with a...
Because of links it's easy to feel you must sign up for every social network or anything new and remotely related to links. The nightlight has been replaced by warm blue glows of new emails and tweets.
Often in these instances I prefer to search via apps - Google Maps for instance seems infinitely easier to use to browse quickly through local options than "the 10 blue links" display, although this can suffer from keyword targeting issues sometimes.
If it's not pretty easily found, that link is going to another site: that of your competitor.errors: Shari Thurow had a great point in a comment on a recent post of mine where I said that if you didn't have certain content available anymore, 301...
No longer is it 10 blue links combined with a few universal and local results. Google has changed not only the SERP itself, but also the Google page intent, the links, the way it even collects data. Awesomely, you go after these new links in listings.
When a top ranked site doesn’t have sitelinks, Google continues to show the traditional 10 blue links, plus whatever other universal results are deemed relevant (news, images, videos, etc. It appears the seven results are triggered on Google mainly...
Results are listed in large, touch-friendly tiles, taking the search experience well beyond 10, blue text-based links. Windows 8 is set for an October 26 release date, but Microsoft introduced its Bing for Windows 8 app last week.
The left navigation was modernized with few old blue links. Google also toned down the little blue text question marks. Over the past year Google has been listening to advertisers and agencies and the feedback we have been giving.
A large display with wide, touch-friendly links replaces the old start page. In many reports, you can hover over a particular date to see pop-up information which often includes links for even more data in another drill-down report.
While it may not seem it at the time, when you discover a giant crab clawing at your foot, or a penguin pecking at your links, finding a solution to your problem is absolutely satisfying. Doctor Who" was a program about a strange, crotchety old man...
There has been much hype around Google's forthcoming "entity" search, and this seems to confirm that Google is still hard at work perfecting these new results that provide users with a richer experience that goes beyond 10 blue links.
