Google Instant Previews, which gave searchers a sneak peek of a website by hovering over a magnifying glass icon, has been removed due to low usage. Google Instant Previews launched in late 2010 and looked like this:
Instant Previews This tool allows you to see how your site looks using Google’s Instant Preview feature (the view of your site that can be seen in the search results when you mouse over the double arrows that show up next to a result).
Yahoo has unveiled a new search tool that its claims will offer users a better way to search the Internet on their iPhone, iPad, or on a desktop browser. Yahoo Axis displays search results without users having to leave their current web page, and...
Instant Previews To trigger Instant Previews, you’ll now have to hover and pause over the icon to the right of the search result. Previously, Instant Previews were triggered by hovering over the larger button area.
In the past four years or so, we’ve seen varying levels of hysteria over Google Suggest (later renamed Autocomplete), Search Options, Social Search at the bottom of the SERPs and later incorporated in organic results, Realtime Search, Google...
Google’s Instant Previews pane increases the importance of post-click-through behavior, while local search plays a more significant role in queries lower in the purchase funnel, according to a new eye-tracking study from Rosetta.
As such, they continued to expand on their Google Instant offerings rolled out last September, adding Instant Previews, Pages, mobile, video previews, Places, and ad previews – and also added autocomplete “predictions”.
Also getting a fresh new look: Instant Previews. This YouTube video shows the sticky bar and new previews: Also, the website link, URL, “cached” and “similar” links appear above the Instant Preview, which isn’t the case now.
When Bing launched Quick Previews (for those unfamilar with the features, it pre-dated Google's Instant Previews, but is a much simpler text-based preview than Google's offering), users were simply shown more information about the site by hovering...
Troubleshooting Instant Previews in Webmaster Tools - Google Webmaster ToolsAdvice on how to minimize errors to make sure your site looks nice in Instant Previews. Yandex aiming to IPO. LinkedIn did IPO.
Google Instant Previews will now include Adobe Flash objects and other rich content. Google Instant Previews allow searchers to preview the layout of a website from within the search results page before clicking on the blue link.
AdWords Instant Previews for Ads: Free Clicks for Advertisers If AdWords runs on websites that request payment, financial, or personal information, advertisers must comply with three new rule changes starting May 17, the Inside AdWords blog announced.
Instant Previews for Ads, which we reported was being tested last week, are now live in the U.S. AdWords Instant Previews for Ads: Free Clicks for Advertisers by Danny Goodwin Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of...
Instant Previews for Ads, which we reported was being tested last week, are now live in the U.S. Just as with regular Instant Previews, which debuted in November, call outs (the orange boxes) highlight the relevant content based on the search query.
After pushing out Instant Previews for mobile and video, Google is now testing Instant Ad Previews, allowing Google users to preview the landing page before clicking on an ad to visit the site. Just as with regular Instant Previews, Google users...
Also, Google is trying to push the idea of visually appealing websites with Instant Previews. Panda's aftermath, not surprisingly, was the hot topic among SES New York attendees last week. Hopefully you haven't been sitting on your hands, worrying...
Search Previews Basically what you're getting in the search tray is something they call "search previews," a stripped down version of Yahoo organic search results. And to get it out of the way, Yahoo Search Direct is not like Google Instant.
Instant Previews for videos have the same appearance as regular Instant Previews -- the selected clip is highlighted in blue and a clickable magnifying glass appears next to the title of the video. Google Introduces Instant Video Previews by Danny...
Google is adding Instant Previews for Videos. Instant Previews for videos have the same appearance as regular Instant Previews -- the selected clip is highlighted in blue and a clickable magnifying glass appears next to the title of the video.
An HTML5-powered version of Bing is on the way, and the search engine is touting new features on a preview site that include "search previews as you type" (a.k.a. After Amazon, Masterobjects Takes Google To Court Over Instant Search Patent...
