There's a post on Search Engine Watch Blog (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060706-092610) about how searching Google for the phrase "therapy products" is strangely bringing up a box the says "See Results for Yahoo."
http://www.google.com/search?q=therapy+products
How is that kind of result even close? |
Hmmm. Another Google mystery. |
I think this feature is cool. If i search for "tennis", it says "search results for Wimbledon".
Probably many people search for [therapy products yahoo]. |
Yes I think Alex is right in how it must have happened unless this is an internal Google prank in which case:
-- Don't prank with your main product.
-- Make it funnier next time! |
yeah I had to see this for myself.. its kinda weird.. sponsered link to yahoo. This could cuase conflicts of revenue ..
http://slash.pd.googlepages.com/wtf2.png |
It's organic, not sponsored link. Like the gay Ashley Cole [ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2073055,00.html] |
hmm, i wonder if this is like a new type of googlebomb... and if so, how it works. |
it cant be organic.. the results are under the sponsered ad's banner.. or am I wrong ?
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The "Sponsored links" is for the ads in the right column.
How can you do this? Call all your friends and start searching for microsoft dumb. If many people do that, Google will offer the alternative "microsoft dumb" everytime someone searches for "microsoft". |
Is it based on user behavior or something more advanced found in web pages? |
It's based on user searches. If there is a popular refinement for a query, Google will suggest it. |
funny.. Amit has posted an "evil trick" that yahoo is upto!! :)-
http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/07/search-for-google-on-yahoo-youll-see.html |
that's extremely old.
Even my May post was old news: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/if-you-search-for-google-on-yahoo.html |
I doubt many people are searching for [therapy products yahoo] (as Alex suggested). Google Suggest returns nothing for [therapy products]. |
Unusual "Google Trends" chart for "therapy products":
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22therapy+products%22 |
the trends chart is odd because you did a phrase search and that's not a popular phrase search. You get a less odd (but not completely normal) one for the same query w/o the quotes
google.com/trends?q=therapy+products |
