tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post1769470699865495138..comments2024-03-18T02:14:57.204-07:00Comments on Google Operating System: Google Experiments with Removing URLs from Search Results ListingsAlex Chituhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02618542750965508582noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-37206826188759474112017-03-15T01:53:00.741-07:002017-03-15T01:53:00.741-07:00Your blog has given me that thing which I never ex...Your blog has given me that thing which I never expect to get from all over the websites. Nice post guys!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.papdan.com/iphone-and-mobile-development.php" rel="nofollow">Melbourne Mobile Developer</a>seravina danniellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17416651554211077082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-51123142882646252352012-09-24T12:14:26.166-07:002012-09-24T12:14:26.166-07:00I honestly prefer seeing the URL in the results, i...I honestly prefer seeing the URL in the results, it saves time.born2wildouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08418366950409391049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-90966942684747912522011-08-02T13:08:48.529-07:002011-08-02T13:08:48.529-07:00Someone above said "people don't care abo...Someone above said "people don't care about the URL." I beg to differ. As search engines gain longevity, searchers are becoming more experienced and search savvy. More people than ever would be considered "power searchers." <br /><br />Even as a standard searcher not an SEO, I use the URL below the results as an indicator of whether the page is relevant to my query. I don't like downloading PDFs to get tiny pieces of information, and that URL helped me see that quickly when they come up in the SERPs. <br /><br />Someone above also said that it may be for ginormous social networks or other hugely branded sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. If that's the case, I could probably live with the URL not being displayed. But for every site ever, I think there's a huge margin for error and it's less user-friendly.Heather Physioc - Kansas City SEOhttp://www.heatherphysioc.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-42960745767726275732011-07-01T04:16:19.331-07:002011-07-01T04:16:19.331-07:00If the addresses are removed permanently we will g...If the addresses are removed permanently we will go to firefox. AVG can not notify you if the site is infected and we use the URL to keep away from sites like ASK.com which actually yeild not resutlts and waste our time.roger Bhttp://www.rogerb.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-56041137796646882412011-07-01T00:57:59.248-07:002011-07-01T00:57:59.248-07:00I also look at the URL in the results to validate ...I also look at the URL in the results to validate where I'm going. It's more quicker and more convenient than having to hover and scan the status bar. Another bad Google change (have they fixed the broken Image Search yet?).Marknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-42371869106621437072011-06-30T11:12:43.493-07:002011-06-30T11:12:43.493-07:00Keep the URL. Some sites have almost identical de...Keep the URL. Some sites have almost identical descriptions, but not the same URL.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-4127693099062737452011-06-17T08:44:39.925-07:002011-06-17T08:44:39.925-07:00I would hate to lose the URL in my search results ...I would hate to lose the URL in my search results to be honest. We saw something similar to this about a month ago, although not as drastic where Google took the URL and moved it to the top of the search results. I didn't mind that, but this would be bad. http://www.newepicmedia.com/news/google-search-results-experimentNew Epic Mediahttp://www.newepicmedia.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-28817201371892927602011-06-15T16:43:55.485-07:002011-06-15T16:43:55.485-07:00People don't care about the URL. They really o...People don't care about the URL. They really only care that what they are looking at is the topic they want to read about.Web Design Sydneyhttp://www.creativedevelopment.com.au/seo/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-63390140432171127562011-06-15T00:12:56.788-07:002011-06-15T00:12:56.788-07:00It's looking better in fact. More clean regard...It's looking better in fact. More clean regarding the facts that some web pages have really long URL's.Laptop Repair Brooklynhttp://laptoprepairbrooklyn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-73614627088630965762011-06-15T00:08:11.639-07:002011-06-15T00:08:11.639-07:00Hope these will remain in EXPERIMENT stage.Hope these will remain in EXPERIMENT stage.nydatapchttp://www.nydatapc.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-85364102349100025332011-06-14T16:26:16.061-07:002011-06-14T16:26:16.061-07:00How is this going to effect SEO relevancy, with th...How is this going to effect SEO relevancy, with this change does the relevancy of having keyword in the URL extension would take a backseat?Piyush Pankajhttp://twitter.com/piyushpankajnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-33245629710770073172011-06-14T09:25:59.286-07:002011-06-14T09:25:59.286-07:00@Mark: yesterday, in Italy, I saw a variation of t...@Mark: yesterday, in Italy, I saw a variation of this test. Google was displaying both the site name and the destination url (separated by a comma). I've made some queries and found that this feature was shown for these websites: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Apple, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Myspace, Linkedin, Tumblr. So, not only for social networks, but also for "trusted sites". The feature didn't appear for FriendFeed and Quora.<br />You can see a screenshot here: http://www.riccardoperini.com/google-serp-nome-sito-url.phpRiccardo Perinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02376265872522350227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-54130827128213041092011-06-14T05:44:40.646-07:002011-06-14T05:44:40.646-07:00Has anyone pointed out that the two sites mentione...Has anyone pointed out that the two sites mentioned as appearing URL-free -- Facebook and Linkedin -- have one thing in common: they're enormous social networks? <br /><br />If there's no evidence that Google is experimenting with removing other URLs, this could suggest Google is using social data to identify a company's canonical page on those networks. The lack of a URL in this case indicates that Google thinks it's found a definitive answer to what [facebook] has to say about [madvertise].<br /><br />I like this idea: if Google is confident about its results here, it looks as though it's working towards a proper disambiguation of names. Here's my hope: first companies, then people.Mark Barkernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-80725499293981504412011-06-14T03:01:19.689-07:002011-06-14T03:01:19.689-07:00There are always some experimentation of search re...There are always some experimentation of search results across the different data centers.<br /><br />I have seen rusluts lately where the URL is right between the blue headline and the black text is belowe. I think they are trying to test what works best towards reaching their CTR goals.Vegarhttp://www.enklerevalg.nonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-81983480503532965232011-06-14T00:31:17.821-07:002011-06-14T00:31:17.821-07:00Hi everybody,
I see a new feature / test where Goo...Hi everybody,<br />I see a new feature / test where Google displays both the site name and the destination url, separated by a dash.<br /><br />E.g.<br />Title<br />Description<br />Site name - urlofthepageRiccardo Perinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02376265872522350227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-57226640082035606372011-06-14T00:13:25.011-07:002011-06-14T00:13:25.011-07:00I think this is a pretty bad idea. I look at the u...I think this is a pretty bad idea. I look at the url a lot to ensure that this is the place that i want to be navigating to. The URL tells me a lot of information without me going inside the link to peek. Besides, it also allows me to quickly copy the link location and also it is much easier to see it there than to see it at the the status bar.<br /><br />The status bar is too short to list out longer URLs. Would be happy if Google just let the URL be for the time being.TC Thamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10708016909695180976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-13027990904615336202011-06-13T10:57:49.320-07:002011-06-13T10:57:49.320-07:00Among other reasons, this would serve google's...Among other reasons, this would serve google's desires to track where people go from a search result page. It would make it terribly inconvenient to get hold of a clean URL, without the tracking wrapper goo.Frank Ch. Eiglerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06535966377820034604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-81676519536506302542011-06-13T10:53:20.119-07:002011-06-13T10:53:20.119-07:00Very bad idea.
The idea is to make it harder for ...Very bad idea.<br /><br />The idea is to make it harder for folks to navigate to sites sub-URLs and other documents, therefore they have to spend more money on Adwords to get exposure.<br /><br />Google is Evil, IMO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-33599024202355428542011-06-13T08:40:11.379-07:002011-06-13T08:40:11.379-07:00Give users the option of showing the URLs or not s...Give users the option of showing the URLs or not showing them in search results. I prefer to see them, so I don't want to lose this functionality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-67627999918718355952011-06-13T05:33:03.113-07:002011-06-13T05:33:03.113-07:00"a list of hand-picked popular sites"
h..."a list of hand-picked popular sites"<br /><br />how do you know they're hand picked? I'd bet they're selected algorithmically.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-60913645473161125552011-06-12T19:08:50.553-07:002011-06-12T19:08:50.553-07:00I think it's a great idea. Put site names for ...I think it's a great idea. Put site names for valid sites. Helps weed out imitators.bystreamsofwaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18228918567550381264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-32519219582618551752011-06-12T06:49:43.343-07:002011-06-12T06:49:43.343-07:00I often scan the search result list to see where t...I often scan the search result list to see where the urls are pointing to evaluate the sources. This would be a huge inconvenience.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-22077867207487591592011-06-12T05:11:29.876-07:002011-06-12T05:11:29.876-07:00The value it adds is it helps people not be scamme...The value it adds is it helps people not be scammed by facebook.com.somedodgysite.cn because they learn to trust Google's named result and pay extra care to URLs.<br /><br />The downside is it's another step towards a two tier web where there are Google-approved sites and non-approved sites.genoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-51786585363287932712011-06-12T04:19:17.502-07:002011-06-12T04:19:17.502-07:00@Tom O: "this (slightly) reduces the response...@Tom O: "this (slightly) reduces the response size"<br />Yeah, 20 bytes per result or so. And not all results are such well known websites (like Facebook or LinkedIn) so not all search results will have this. Even if you had only results from facebook, you would save 200 bytes. Now that's a sure improvement, nowadays even the slowest type of mobile connection (GPRS) is multiple thousand bytes per second.<br /><br />Generally, I don't like this. I want to see the URL, not have to hover over every single search result to display it in the bottom of my screen. I just don't see the use of it.Lucnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18157064.post-53474962251171685352011-06-12T00:22:48.728-07:002011-06-12T00:22:48.728-07:00Back to the Future? Sounds like Google would like ...Back to the Future? Sounds like Google would like *Uniform* Resource Locators (URLs) to be replaced with Google (AOL?) Keywords. Made me laugh.deitcherhttp://blog.atomicinc.comnoreply@blogger.com