Question about a Google result

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    General Grant, Oct 15, 2005 IP
  2. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    Basically that would mean they are the authority site for that subject. Sites are getting these little by little but I have never seen more than 1 in the same search. So thats what leads me to believe its the authority site.

    I also dont think this is done automatically. It maybe done manually but I could be wrong. :)
     
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    Interesting. I hadn't seen that before but Aaron may be right.

    It works for:

    Soundblaster

    Encarta

    Encyclopedia --> yields top result for encyclopedia.com

    New York Times

    and even

    Psychology --> yields psychology.com

    But not for:

    health information

    Psychiatry

    So this led me to hypothesize that maybe it only worked for domain names or company names that were the same as the search term.

    However, I then found that the following does not work:

    mental health, even though this --> mentalhealth.com

    And additionally, the following DOES work:

    mental illness --> yields nami.org

    So, conclusion?

    :confused:
     
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    I wondered about that for a while. One of my sites displays like that.

    Also the title displayed for results is the title that you search for not the title of the page
     
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  5. minstrel

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    Fascinating, isn't it? This might be one of those little puzzles that wakes me up in the middle of the night :eek:
     
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    perhaps if you rank so long #1 for a term you nail it like that?

    althought digitalpoint doesnt do it its weird.... you would think if anything it would. I dunno. I am going to Mountain View again soon though and I will ask ;)
     
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  8. minstrel

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    Odd. It doesn't tell you how you can subscribe to Fiona Apple... :eek:
     
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    Subscribe :)
     
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    I think Google should have told me that though - I'd much rather subscribe to Fiona than to Apple Computers... :eek:
     
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    Well, I wonder where google gets that info from. Interesting, none the less.
     
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    I can tell you that for my web site, when I search on it in Google, I get something similar.

    Do a search on The Baseball Cube and you will see a couple of my more popular pages popping up underneath for the sports-wired.com domain.

    I did not submit anything special to have this happen. I imagine the "Contact Us" page is a popular page on the site and that is why it is included.
     
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