FTC Gives me my First Search in Site Box
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searching for [federal trace commission] gave me my first search in site box
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March 7th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Wow! I haven’t seen that before (and I actually see it here, too, way down under - novelty. I rarely get the search results you do)
I was thinking about what would drive this, and it occurred to me that if a site has a Google Search tool, and they show a high percentage of people using it after arriving from a search query, then they may just suggest people got straight to search.
But ftc is using Ultraseek, so no.
I wonder if they are characterising the site as one that has a lot of site searches, or if they have specific usage data of a lot of site searches… I can’t see anything on the site that would be giving them internal site traffic info. Hmmm…
March 7th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Also showing up for:
house of representatives
senate
March 7th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Buddy I love what you do and I respect the fact that you take time out to post…but sometimes I have no idea what your posts are about.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:16 am
I got my first search box for Microsoft.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Microsoft and Homeland Security also give one of these. Interesting.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:58 am
@richardb umm the screenshot doesn’t give you a clue?
March 8th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Wikipedia does as well.
March 9th, 2008 at 11:04 am
It’s popping up all over the place.
white house
fbi
nasa
irs
new york times
washington post
flickr
imdb
sherdog
craigslist
rei
walmart
March 10th, 2008 at 6:49 am
Dictionary.com also comes with a search
March 10th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
It’s wierd, I was surfing the net today, and noticed that little search box for Wikipedia. Then in the same day I read your blog about how your site that has one. I think Google must be allowing them for some of the major sites that have a lot of information on them.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I was just in a meeting with someone on Friday discussing how the typical user narrows their search via multiple searches before clicking on something. It seems Google is beginning to identify the sites where people click through in the early stages, but then search that site. By inserting this little box they’re keeping users around a little longer and displaying more ads. It could be a very small percentage difference, but that multiplied across Google’s traffic numbers equals big dollars.
March 10th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I got them looking up quest strings on allakhazam and thottbot. [Don't judge my WoW addiction.] I hate them. I don’t want a secondary set of 10 blue links, I want the right page. Give it an ‘I’m feeling lucky’ option.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I found a couple interesting things about this today. One Google is talking about it but not how to use it on your own sites. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/search-within-site-tale-of.html
Secondly, All government sites have it. But I did find it if I searched “blog radio” but if I searched “radio blog” the same result was number 1 minus the search feature.
March 11th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
hai michael