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searchengineland.com - 12/13/2008

Google Search Suggest Get Ads, Links & Answers

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Earlier this year, Google Suggest finally made it to the Google home page. The feature suggests queries as you begin typing in the search box. Now Google is testing providing links to web sites, direct answers and even ads that appear within the Google Suggest list. Not everyone will see these ...

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online.wsj.com - 12/15/2008

Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web

— online.wsj.com — VISHESH KUMAR and CHRISTOPHER RHOADS The celebrated openness of the Internet -- network providers are not supposed... to give preferential treatment to any traffic -- is quietly losing powerful defenders. Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone ... (more) Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web

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gigaom.com - 12/15/2008

Google Turns Its Back on Network Neutrality [GigaOM]

— gigaom.com — The Wall Street Journal reports that Google, long a network neutrality champion, is looking to cut deals... with broadband providers — both cable and phone companies — to get faster access for its own content. The Journal claims it has seen documents ... (more) Google Turns Its Back on Network Neutrality [GigaOM]

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bennett.com - 12/15/2008

Google Gambles in Casablanca

— bennett.com — I'm shocked. Google has been caught red-handed negotiating deals with ISPs to host servers inside the building,... just like Akamai does. The semi-technical press thinks this is some sort of a game-changing event: The celebrated openness of the Internet ... (more) Google Gambles in Casablanca

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Google Suggest Testing Links, Ads
WebProNews Feed — ... more than save keystrokes, this seemed kind of sad. Only now Google's testing some upgrades that might make Google Suggest both sophisticated and profitable. Suppose you're going to search for [new york times], for example. While normal users are supposed to start typing the query, pick one of Google Suggest's recommendations, look at the results page, and then click on something, certain testers are just seeing Google Suggest provide a link to the New York Times site. According to Danny Sullivan , other queries are eliciting links to news stories. Both of these options ...

Ads and More Spotted in Google Suggest
Google Blogoscoped — ... Google Suggest is Google’s auto completion feature of their homepage box (you can toggle whether this will show in your Google preferences, though your setting will always be lost when you lose your cookies and login again). Now Search Engine Land reports that special links are appearing in the suggest box... like news results, but also AdWords ads. In the screenshot above courtesy of Danny Sullivan, the ad is shown at the top, but Google were also showing Danny examples of a bottom position placement that’s being tested. (Hmm... could these type of ads ...

Google Search Suggest Gets Sponsored Listings and More
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... Danny Sullivan has collected screen shots of the various Search Suggest Sponsored Listing incarnations that Google are testing which include Title and Link only ads, conventional ads, ads at the top, ads at the bottom and variations in between. ...

Google Suggest gets search ad test
Webware.com — ... Google Suggest is a feature that provides a drop-down listing possible search terms; I find it handy for completing long queries with the down arrow and the Enter key. With some people, though, Google is testing a green search ad at the top of the list, Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land reported. ...

Google Tests Navigational Suggestions and More Enhanced Snippets
Google Operating System — Search Engine Land reports about three new Google experiments that add navigational links to Google Suggest and enhance the snippets for reviews and structured pages. For navigational queries, which usually have a single relevant answer, Google experiments with adding a link to the first search result at the top of the suggestions list. Google Chrome already implements this feature and it's likely that it will be added to Google's homepage as well. Other experiments include ads and results from specialized search engines, but they don't seem to be ...