Comments on: Google Bucket Tests User-Defined Blurb Length In Search Results

By: Abstract/Meta tag description più lungo nelle pagine dei risultati di Google

Abstract/Meta tag description più lungo nelle pagine dei risultati di Google — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:45:31 +0000

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By: Die Auswirkung längerer Snippets auf SEO | SEO-Praktikant.de

Die Auswirkung längerer Snippets auf SEO | SEO-Praktikant.de — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:02:24 +0000

[...] werden bei längeren Suchphrasen Snippets von 4 Zeilen angezeigt, zum anderen werden aktuell einigen Usern Buttons angezeigt um die Snippetlänge bzw. den Detailgrad der Suchergebnisse [...]

By: OldTech:Des résumés plus longs pour Google en phase de test | Whytech

OldTech:Des résumés plus longs pour Google en phase de test | Whytech — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:04:29 +0000

[...] temps de devoir cliquer sur la page sans pouvoir lire en entier les résumés qu’elle propose. [TechCrunch] Envoyer ce contenu vers [...]

By: Riassunti più lunghi su Google : Strumenti di ricerca su Internet

Riassunti più lunghi su Google : Strumenti di ricerca su Internet — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:18:19 +0000

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By: NeoNet 2.0 » Archive du blog » Google sur le point de changer la taille des resumes dans ses resultats de recherche ?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:21:53 +0000

[...] Google semble avoir lancé une nouvelle expérimentation visant à savoir quelle serait la taille idéale pour le résumé de chaque résultats de recherche. L’entreprise est bien connue pour effectuer régulièrement des expérimentations de ce type, où ils proposent la modification envisagée à un échantillon d’internautes afin de recueillir des statistiques. Dans le cas présent, les utilisateurs sélectionnés ont le choix entre : Small : Aucune description (uniquement le titre) Medium : le résumé actuel Long : Environ 4 fois la taille du résumé actuel Source et Image : TechCrunch [...]

By: MediaVision Blog : Search Engine Marketing » Google’s bucket is always full

MediaVision Blog : Search Engine Marketing » Google’s bucket is always full — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:26:32 +0000

[...] another note, my original purpose for this post was to talk about the bucket testing of Google’s expanded search result description blurbs. Initially only a privileged few will be allowed to use the feature, which gives [...]

By: Hic Sunt Dracones » Blog Archive » 16 Blocks isn’t a great film.

Hic Sunt Dracones » Blog Archive » 16 Blocks isn’t a great film. — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:39:59 +0000

[...] Google seems to have S / M / L options for displaying blurbs off their search results. It wasn’t showing up for me at work, but it is at home. Fo sure. [...]

By: jean-tauk BLOG- google e-Marketing Optimization and New Technologies » Longer summaries test on Google

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:01:51 +0000

[...] to TechCrunch, Google is currently testing the possibility of providing summaries ( “snippets”) more [...]

By: Proxima Créative - Le Blog » Actu du web » Ici et là, le web de la semaine en bref

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:03:58 +0000

[...] pour terminer ces brèves, petit retour sur Google qui, si l’on en croit TechCrunch , serait en train de tester la mise en place de nouvelles mises en formes pour ses SERP. Cette [...]

By: Ici et là … le web en bref (#1) | Weboscopie

Ici et là … le web en bref (#1) | Weboscopie — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:51:35 +0000

[...] pour terminer ces brèves, petit retour sur Google qui, si l’on en croit TechCrunch , serait en train de tester la mise en place de nouvelles mises en formes pour ses SERP. Cette [...]

By: Have you seen this Google experiment?

Have you seen this Google experiment? — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:41:33 +0000

[...] users to see if they are worth implementing on a wider scale (this is called bucket testing). SOURCE. [...]

By: New Snippet Tests

New Snippet Tests — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:39:24 +0000

[...] тества нови дължини на Snippets (S, M, L) Google Bucket Tests User-Defined Blurb Length In Search Results Google Tests Additional Search Box Within Search ResultsGoogle Tests Additional Search Box Within [...]

By: streetsine

streetsine — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:46:48 +0000

The long version will make SEO more difficult for RIA sites. Search engines already have a hard time indexing RIA sites. Only a small part of the content can be indexed. Once they implement this feature, people looking for transaction (instead of information) will tend to go to traditional sites, simply because the chance of keywords appearing many times in an RIA site is very small.

I think this is bad for the web. Sites will find it less compelling to evolve beyond the traditional SEO friendly sites.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:44:19 +0000

Hi Mitch. Well now that they have more room, they can finally give webmasters a use-snippet tag so they can opt to include their description. So far Google just puts what they feel like in there, such as your Dmoz description. Just being optimistic

By: joe tango

joe tango — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:48:21 +0000

Golly-gee, I hope Google put ads next to MY content when they display a larger snippet.

I pay tens of thousands for a great quality. I’m not interested in making money from my work or investment. I want Google to make ad revenue from me providing the most relevant content and users not having to click-thru to my site.

In fact, why not make the snippet larger for results from my site? Can Google do some funky AJAX thing where they can display my entire site content through Google? Minus my ads, of course.

By: John H. Gohde

John H. Gohde — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:15:05 +0000

Longer snippets means news rules. And, new rules means more SEO work. Larger monitor screen display formats mean that more text can comfortably fit on each SERP.

Bigger is better.

By: Google Testing Snippet Size Controls in Search Results | Kooshy - Sneaky Search Marketing

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:03:53 +0000

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By: SEOAly

SEOAly — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:14:02 +0000

Yeah…that’s completely untrue. Google often selects random text from a page even when a META description exists.

By: SEOAly

SEOAly — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:47:37 +0000

Believing this to be terrible for webmasters simply means your site is of no use to anyone in the first place. Short or long, if the site’s description provides useless and irrelevant information, people shouldn’t be “tricked” into visiting it based on its listing in SERPs.

If the site is good, the blurb will be good…if the site sucks, the blurb will suck - thereby helping people to avoid wasting their time visiting it. Only those attempting to drive traffic to a crappy sites should be adversely affected by this change, in the event that it is ever released to the public. It’s just another way that Google is attempting to separate the wheat from the chaff - and that is as it should be.

By: SEOAly

SEOAly — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:42:25 +0000

“I think that the long is a great idea from a user’s perspective. However, this is awful to SEOs. Users will be able to get a lot of information without clicking through to webpages, and crappy pages won’t be clicked as often on long mode…”

I’m guessing that’s probably part of the point!

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Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:17:22 +0000

[...] Google testet Snippet-Länge - Mir persönlich gefällt die derzeitige “kurze” Version eigentlich ganz gut. [...]

By: Jarret

Jarret — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:56:24 +0000

Wrong, you can provide a meta description and Google will ignore it completely. If they can find the data in a sentence inside of your post/article they will replace your meta description with that because it is more relevant and that is what Google is all about.

By: SEO | End of the snippet as we know it? | Gary Reid

SEO | End of the snippet as we know it? | Gary Reid — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:04:33 +0000

[...] Jason, @TechCrunch, wrote about a new test Google are running that gives users the ability to chose the length of the snippet in search results. The [...]

By: 海外SEO情報ブログ - 海外のSEO対策で極めるアクセスアップ術

海外SEO情報ブログ - 海外のSEO対策で極めるアクセスアップ術 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:25:54 +0000

グーグル、スニペットの長さを３段階に…

Googleの検索結果に表示されるウェブページの簡潔な説明文である「スニペット（snippet）」は、タイトル同様に検索者をひきつけクリックを誘うのに、非常に重要です。
スニペットの長さ….

By: Todd Levy

Todd Levy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:58:55 +0000

I’ve also seen this as a sidebar that not only let you choose blurb length but add images for each result as well as pull out key dates from results.

Didn’t screen grab it and haven’t seen it since, but I know it’s out there.

Actually really dug it and wish there were a way to force it to come back

P.S. Speaking of the Google, try my “weekend project” search mashup at http://searchquilt.com/