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 If you’re in the program you’ll see notification appear on your YouTube page that this account is the official channel for your website (similar to the Verified stamp on Twitter accounts).
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...
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.
Bing seems to have recently made some changes to its Quick Previews box, inserting reviews from Amazon.com and answers from Yahoo Answers when users mouseover the arrow to the right of the search result to get more information about a website.
Troubleshooting Instant Previews in Webmaster Tools - Google Webmaster ToolsAdvice on how to minimize errors to make sure your site looks nice in Instant Previews. Facebook recognizes their own users on any website.
Google Instant Previews allow searchers to preview the layout of a website from within the search results page before clicking on the blue link. Instead, those previews that are fetched as you ask for them will show either text that reads "Install...
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 If you want to improve your SEO campaign, especially if you have a large...
Also, Google is trying to push the idea of visually appealing websites with Instant Previews. Google regularly emphasizes the need to build a brand rather than a website, and tends to favor established brands.
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. I can click to the Weather Channel website.
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. Another website has suffered the wrath of Google after it was exposed for using...
Google's Instant Previews are beginning to show up in Safari for Apple devices including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, 9 to 5 Mac reports. Google Brings Instant Previews to iPhone, iPad by Danny Goodwin
Google's Instant Previews are beginning to show up in Safari for Apple devices including the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, 9 to 5 Mac reports. Google launched Instant Previews in November. With Instant Previews in iOS Safari, you can swipe through...
Silvio Porcellana: The main changes that the Italian search engines market -- and I guess the whole world -- experienced in 2010 were essentially two: the continuous releases of new "features" and changes by Google (Google Instant, real time...
My last column about Google's Instant Previews feature generated a number of comments from people who said they didn't care for this new Google feature and they didn't use it. Some people live for the latest in website design aesthetics and they...
Okay so Google addressed the Instant Previews pageview count issues for their analytics. Any website owner who had not know of this - the problem is fixed in GA but there is no way to delete the inflated pageview counts prior to the fix.
