I am well aware of the fact that Google is always experimenting with their SERPs. I have seen many different formats and types of results show up for different search queries but I have never seen a SERP with everything at the bottom of the page. Has anyone else seen this before. This SERP has Local Search in the middle of the page, which is not uncommon, but it also has News Search, Shopping Search, Book Search , and Blog Search Results all stuffed into the bottom of the page. Check it out, click on the picture to see the full screen version.
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Google Results Getting Uglier
I’m wondering if this is something that others have seen (maybe it is old news) or if Google is looking to make their SERPs even more cluttered and messy going forward? With the Sponsored Listings showing up closer to organic and the inclusion of every type of result Google has available this page is looking cluttered and really trending toward the problems with older search engines. Let’s hope this is just a test and that they avoid cluttering the SERPs with text blobs like this going forward.
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Google needs to wash out their asses. They can start by pushing their paid results back over to the right where they belong. From there, they need to stop trying to be cute with their lousy universal serp crap…and once that’s fixed, maybe they can start adhereing to my MetaNoIndex no follow tags so that I don’t have to spend a month lobbying for extra work just to please this horrible search product.
Yeah, the SERPs are beginning to look extremely messy. With universal search listings and the fact that they decided to squish the paid results as close to organic as possible the results are starting to resemble a blob of text. I wonder how long it will be before the paid listings are injected within the organic results? They are obviously continually trying to blur the line between organic and paid so I wouldn’t put that past them.
As far as following Meta No Index tags, don’t you know that Google is better than the webmaster at deciding which pages should be indexed and which should be left out.
They treat Robots directives as mere suggestions and will index whatever they want.
Nice to see the blog working again.
Anyways this is nothing new. Google has been testing this stuff on various data centers for years. Put related searches here, blog posts there, “our” shopping results here and the news results there, mix in the 10 text links and we have a stew of info according to Google.
The UI is always in flux as maaaan!
Yeah, I have seen the variations on the SERPs but this is really the first time I’ve seen them try to shove every type of result at the bottom of the page. That coupled with the move of the sponsored results to the left has left this page looking way too cluttered and schizophrenic. At least IMO.