Is Google Pushing Universal Results

Michael Gray

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Doing a vanity search for myself I noticed something interesting, here’s a screen shot when you list the top 20 results, notice the double videos in the middle


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when you search by 10’s looking at the top 10 you get the same 2 double videos

michael gray - Google Search10

but if you go to page to for results 11-20 they “force inject” a video that was on the first page … interesting …

michael gray - Google Search20

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{ 5 comments }

Al September 28, 2008 at 8:30 pm

Just as a matter of interest, was it the same URL in the second page or the same video republished – therefore a different URL?

Michael Gray September 28, 2008 at 8:36 pm

@Al: same URL which is what made me think it was forced in

mark September 29, 2008 at 11:57 pm

My guess is that they are force injecting it rather into the first page universal search one-box result and the result that you see on the later page is where that video actually would rank organically. Thanks for sharing.

Chris October 10, 2008 at 9:58 pm

Out of interest – what have you done to get the number showing to the left of each result? Is that a firefox plugin or am I missing something blindingly obvious on the Google preferences page…

Michael Gray October 10, 2008 at 10:01 pm

@Chris: its the customize google plugin

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