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New Google 'Dual Results' Dissatisfied SERP

Friday, 12 August 2005

The team were just running a search against Telemedia the European Internet event and spotted something interesting on the Google SERP. A new 'Dual Results' SERP, possibly a Google test of some kind.

The SERP shows the top 5 results directly for the target keyphrase 'telemedia' but also  shows the top 3 results separately lower down the page for the search 'telemedia cable' with the following text:

Googledoubleresults1

It looks like Google are testing which results are more popular with the user in order to improve their relevancy, as this is different to their default misspelling text. It looks like the option is added when a particular group of results come back next to each other containing a similar topic, in this case 'cable'

However it doesn't seem to be related to the volume of searches for the new keyphrase as a quick check in the Google Keyword Tool does not list "telemedia cable" as a more specific popular search.

Click the thumbnail below for a large screenshot of the page in question.

Googledouble_results

If anyone can find any more searches where this occurs please let us know in the comments.

Comments

Bill

'Hotel California' gets a 'Hotel California Lyrics' suggestion... also 'jay is' gets a 'jay is games' suggestion. Interestingly, the person on this page:
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004309.html
couldn't get it to work for him... I wonder if it pulls items from "Google Suggest"?

Teddie

Thanks Bill. I found the 'jay is' one and also posted something on SEW.

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=7223

The runnning list is now:

- nbci
- telemedia
- jay is
- cancun resort
- ftpzilla
- Hotel California

Altaf

When I typed a search query of "search engine optimization india" in www.google.com I found the same results with breaks: 1st three results were for "search engine optimization india", where as following 3 were for only "search engine optimization" (india was excluded) and after this next 3 result for "search engine optimization", again a break was there and next results were showed for "search engine optimization india".

You can check same at http://www.seorefugee.com/forums/showthread.php?p=72804#post72804

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