I’m not sure why someone would need to do this but the serp for Ground Hog’s Day looks an awful lot like a handjob to me.
(screen shot after the jump)
Added: after reading Matt’s comments and doing more investigating it appears this a new UI SERP and not a hand edit at all
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This one : http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=seo&btnG=Google+Search looks even funnier to me – does SEOCHat have some special deal with Google to display a ton of links to their internal pages (SEO Forums – Future PageRank, Google Dance – Google Optimization) – nobody else in the SERPs gets that special treatment.
As for the Groundhog day, I believe it’s might even be some special new feature – notice the words “According to…) before the Wikipedia link? Might be something similar to definitions… I am guessing this is because of the way how the search query is formulated – in the form of a natural question… Don’t know if it’s any different for you, but for me a simple search for “Groundhog day” brings totally different results from this query in your screenshot, and no link to Wikipedia…
Do you think we did a hand job for [what is economics] or [what is barbeque] or [what is arbitrage]? Why leap to that conclusion about Groundhog’s Day?
(To answer the question, I believe this was algorithmic and no money was involved. So no hand job.)
IrishWonder, I left a post over at your blog about [seo] but it doesn’t look like you’ve approved it. But the short answer is to read
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ui-fun-better-queries/
to see how that feature is also algorithmic with no money involved, aka no hand job there either.
Matt, sorry about that, comments on my blog don’t work, only trackback ping does and I can’t get around to fixing that…. Can you email me your comment so I can post it as an update to my post?
Ok it’s not a specific hand job but it’s not just as simple as typing [what is x]. For example [what is a full house] triggers the programming but [what is a good credit score] doesn’t. What’s with all the favoritism being shown for wikipedia, that place is wildly inaccurate, heck they thought even you were too spammy to link to (go figure).
Pretty sure this is just an extension to Google definitions or whatever a la Ask Jeeves.
Anyone know who/how they update definitions? I have a glossary on a blog that seems to just be ignored. Are definition lists hand picked by nuns?
Looks like the old Google Q&A feature to me.
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-04-07-n20.html
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