Hey All, I have not been able to find much to read about this. Can anyone point me to someplace that explains what is going on in this pic? They are giving some #1 sites their own private search or what? Hardly a good thing, since I see they have it on some corporate sites now as well... Crappy for affiliate marketers imho.
First time I have ever seen that, Must be some auto generated thing like Sitelinks. or maybe a paid thing? It may have something to do with the Site Search in analytics. But thats a guess, I don't know.. nice feature though.. Cheers James EDIT: Just tried searching "immigration australia" and the top result on that search has one too, Might be because they are government owned sites?
Well, it's showing on the number one result for one of my niches and I must say I don't like it much at all. It's fine in my opinion if it's a thing for info sites like .gov or .edu, but when it shows up on corporate sites that kind of sucks. It looks like it's in the organics. If it's paid, that's fine, then we can all have one. But why do some #1 results have it and some not? That is not fair at all. Anyone see anything from google about this new sucky feature.
It is not just for gov or .edu sites. Do a search for youtube or webmd There should be many more sites.
Actually found http://blog.netrank.co.uk/google-testing-site-search-boxes-within-serps/ navquery_searchbox is the form they use..
Mmm.. so far all results that have one, also have sitelinks, Wonder if it has something to do with the sitelinks feature? Just a guess! Cheers James
The sitelinks are automatically generated by the Google algorithm. I just got them for one of my sites a couple of weeks ago.
Here's what Google says about sitelinks http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334
Thanks for that Tom. I was not able to find anyone even discussing it. I hate it i infact. More SERP real estate to those who don't need it. Looks like crap too.