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Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
16 years ago7,012 views

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1312/1357042075_79718a03e4_o.png

Tonight, I've been seeing this plus box above all of my searches from home. I haven't seen this option at all over the past couple of weeks when performing a Google search.

DPic [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I've never seen that before-- looks new :)

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I tried that one before, but not working. I have I still have the link somewhere....

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It was just interesting that every search I performed had this suggest a site plus box. Even a search of my own name allowed a suggestion.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1400/1357697443_95fa3487ae_o.png

Once you make a suggestion the site will get an asterisk next to the title in Google Search Results with a withdraw link next to it.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1162/1357709873_d3bb1a3095_o.png

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Could this be used as a new form of Google Bombing?

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Please link Colin.

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Isn't this what came up a few weeks ago about personalised searches?

After crawling through pages of Google Blog search I bring you....
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-08-02-n78.html

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Mrrix32, it's similar but not the same. Notice that last time Google said it would "place it up top for you" whereas this time it says, "Help improve search for everyone."

(Maybe they just changed the wording though as they still seem to be using the asterisk.)

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Can you share your PREF cookie, Colin?

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I lost the option today to see that for every search. :(For next time though, how would I get the PREF data?

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Also saw a new link at the bottom of my searches today that I don't remember seeing.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1396/1360104005_969c71d3c3_o.png

How long has the link "Dissatisfied? Help us improve" been at the bottom of search result pages?

Clicking on the link goes to this URL: http://www.google.com/quality_form?q=google&hl=en

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1132/1361002860_c203953d12_o.png

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

<< How long has the link "Dissatisfied? Help us improve" been at the bottom of search result pages? >>

I think that's been there for as long as I can remember. I certainly don't remember it ever not being there.

Martin Porcheron [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Thats been there for many years, as has the outdated link to the old Google help centre (http://www.google.com/intl/en/help.html)

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Wow, I guess I don't pay attention to the bottom of the page enough. ;)

Mrrix32 [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[put at-character here]Colin
Thats nothing I bet you don't even see the box labeled "don't enter anything here (it's a bot trap)" between the message box and send button on this page!

I can :D

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

SearchEngineLand has more on this including the URLs:

http://www.google.com/reviews/w/confirm?q=example.com&url=www.example.com

Via: http://searchengineland.com/070917-094402.php

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