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This could be a great move. Google has moved focus on its search to advertising. When searching "Hotels in San Francisco", the first organic search term is bel
by xGrill 13y ago
This could be a great move. Google has moved focus on its search to advertising.
When searching "Hotels in San Francisco", the first organic search term is below the fold for me, which is a 180 from where Google was even 3 years ago.
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- jknightco 13y agoThe top black bar on the results page for the query you mentioned is called the "local carousel." Its an organic, not paid, result. The same thing shows up for "Restaurants in X," "Museums in X," and the like.
- xGrill 13y agoI don't consider the black bar a result since it just links to another Google search with even more ads.
- calbear81 13y agoGoogle Hotel Finder pulls prices now for hotels from lots of sites which allows you to get more information than you could have before by clicking out to various organic links which seems to be a better user experience to me regardless of whether Google gets paid or not.
- skj 13y agoWhen searching for "Hotels in San Francisco", you are almost certainly looking to spend some money at a hotel in San Francisco. The most relevant results ARE ads.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoBut are the most relevant results from places that have paid Google to be listed?
- vinkelhake 13y agoA query like "Hotels in San Francisco" is very commercial. Even the non-ads results are commercial and it's the same on Bing, Yahoo and duckduckgo. Just curious what kind of results you are expecting.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoWeird. I did the "hotels in San Francisco" search, and I got that semi-annoying little ribbon at the top of the page listing a bunch of hotels in San Francisco. I decided to play with it a bit, and selected the filter "4 stars or better", and it came up with an empty set. I thought well, that's weird. Surely there are 4 star hotels in San Francisco! So I kept trying to figure out what had gone wrong. It turns out the little ribbon is actually showing you results from the map that's down and to the right. That's kind of cool, but there's no UI cues indicating that connection at all. Strange to see something so clumsy on a Google search page.
- btian 13y agoYou'll need to keep in mind that Google is optimized for the average user, not power user.