Comments on: Google Offers Secondary Search Boxes

By: Search Within A Search - Good Idea? - Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog

Search Within A Search - Good Idea? - Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:01:51 +0000

[...] Posted March 6, 2008 by Linda Bustos / var addthis_pub = ‘hotwheel’; In case you missed it on TechCrunch the other day, Google is now showing search boxes within SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) for [...]

By: הצמיחה מאיטה – וגוגל בודקת גבולות

הצמיחה מאיטה – וגוגל בודקת גבולות — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:04:38 +0000

[...] הראשיים של האתרים שעלו בתוצאות החיפוש. הצעד השני הגיע ב-4 במארס: כשמזינים למנוע החיפוש שלה שם של אתר אינטרנט [...]

By: Google Second Search | Online Marketing Performance

Google Second Search | Online Marketing Performance — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:46:56 +0000

[...] Google Offers Secondary Search Boxes - TechCrunch [...]

By: Simon Dance

Simon Dance — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:11:34 +0000

From a user perspective it’s ok… but as a site owner, its not something i’m happy with.

I would be far happier for users to browse my site, look at the homepage and possibly find something else of interest to their initial search query. We, as users, have to have choice, and sometimes we don’t know what we want.

Simon Dance

By: Google Search Within a Search: Update « ed-volution

Google Search Within a Search: Update « ed-volution — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:37:59 +0000

[...] are opposed to this new feature: Google started offering secondary search boxes for major sites March 4, and TechCrunch readers split 55% for, 45% against the feature. Now the New York Times reports that [...]

By: Terbaik.Net » Blog Archive » Some Retailers Oppose Google’s Secondary Search Feature

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:24:29 +0000

[...] started offering secondary search boxes for major sites March 4, and TechCrunch readers split 55% for, 45% against the feature. Now the New York Times reports that [...]

By: Some Retailers Oppose Google’s Secondary Search Feature

Some Retailers Oppose Google’s Secondary Search Feature — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:57:52 +0000

[...] started offering secondary search boxes for major sites March 4, and TechCrunch readers split 55% for, 45% against the feature. Now the New York Times reports that [...]

By: The Woodman

The Woodman — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:10:49 +0000

The average searcher isnt familiar with using ’site:’ Highlighting site search within search will encourage sites where it appears to look more closely at what is indexed in Google and will push them to index more content. And obviously it makes Google more sticky which Google will of course love.

By: Search Within A Search: Google Teleportation | TeqEdge Blog

Search Within A Search: Google Teleportation | TeqEdge Blog — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:28:06 +0000

[...] have Google’s logo – instead it reads Search Example.com The new search enhancement had been spotted in the wild before the announcement from Official Google Blog. A snippet from Google’s blog announcement is [...]

By: Velioncho

Velioncho — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:09:08 +0000

dumb

By: KlonBlog

KlonBlog — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:38:12 +0000

Google: neue Suchbox unter Sitelinks…

Google hat seiner Suchmaschine nach z.B. der Plus-Box eine weitere Box hinzugefügt. Diese durchsucht eine gelistet Seite sofort intern, jedoch nur, wenn Google auch deren Sitelinks anzeigt. Bisher wird diese Box nur bei Suchen auf Google.com angezeigt…

By: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:45:52 +0000

[...] BestBuy and OfficeMax offer the secondary box, as does a search for Wikipedia and The NY Times. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/04/google-offers-secondary-search-boxes [...]

By: Et

Et — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:08:54 +0000

@Sami Bay
Redirecting to the search of an another site is exactly what OpenSearch was designed for, ergo my suggestion.
For those who don’t know what OpenSearch is, it’s the standard behind the search box in the menu of your browser window. Basically any site can have one and the search results presented are those of the site.

By: Sami Bay

Sami Bay — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:26:47 +0000

When I use Amazon’s own site to search, I get pictures, pricing information and nice sorting options. With Google’s search, I only get page titles and some text around the keyword. Nah!

If they redirected the search directly into amazon’s results, for example, it would be a more useful option as it would eliminate one more click I need to do.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:55:21 +0000

ugh… if you’re competing with one of these (if only with a small niche of them, like a particular product space that amazon has), this bites.

The more attention drawn away toward the big boys makes life harder for the smaller fish. I’d guess it was a paid deal, except wikipedia’s on the list…

By: paul

paul — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:33:28 +0000

I agree with the “if ai’n broke” crowd. I’d rather search the vendor’s site than “site:”. using “site:” is goof for sites who do not have a search box or if their search box offers few results. As an aside, it does not work with google’s 4 experimental searches (http://www.google.com/experimental). That is, it does not work if you “joined” an experiment. I have bookmarked the google Suggest, so I can access it without “joining” per se.

By: Et

Et — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:27:07 +0000

Even better than adding a box for “site:amazon.com” option, would have been to use the OpenSearch (if available) of the site itself therefore using the search engine of the site instead of Google. So if Google hasn’t indexed a file that the web site’s search engine did, Google will not find it, but the web site’s search engine, who has a more intimate knowledge of the site would.

By: AndyEd

AndyEd — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:25:07 +0000

This one makes a lot of sense. With 30% of the query stream dedicated to navigational queries, there’s a huge UX and revenue opportunity here.

TechCrunch users may know how to use site:, but the rest of the world doesn’t. Plus, the refined queries are much more monetizable.

By: carsten

carsten — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:46:29 +0000

damn. google should not enter the search option on other sites? and the next step is amazon.com or my own website with google design and templates?????

stop google!!

By: arshad

arshad — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:10:34 +0000

well , not a fantastic idea ——– google may try to change the algorithms it is currently employing to rank the sites —— instead of page ranks , it could go for some other methods .

By: kuldeep

kuldeep — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:44:30 +0000

I think this is very wise idea, but I thot google would do it for paid searches.

In india, this is now available yet.

By: Salvador

Salvador — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:43:00 +0000

This is clearly useful not for the long-tail searches but for those times you type “Amazon” or something similar into the main search box. Great idea, and certainly easier to use for most than site:amazon.com.

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:11:46 +0000

i like the idea behind this, just as long as it doesnt get too crowded with EXTRA search boxes

By: deb

deb — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:45:20 +0000

this is the most crappy idea from Google…

By: pink

pink — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:44:00 +0000

This is a cool feature, but I’d honestly just rather search on Amazons site.