Google Site Search on SERP?

Jun

27th

Posted in SEM, Technology by User Image

Thanks for stopping by my personal blog on Marketing Technology! Over 50,000 visitors a month find my content worth returning for, so don't forget to subscribe to the Marketing Technology Blog RSS feed or to the Marketing Technology Email to have new content sent directly to your inbox. You may also find my other business blog helpful, Social Media Domination.

Good friend and co-worker, Marty Bird, pointed out this interesting feature that I’ve not seen before on Google. The ability to do a site search within an actual search result:

I utilize Site Search quite a bit on Google. The syntax is quite easy and it’s usually faster than using a site’s internal search mechanism. If you wanted to search my site, for example, on tips for Indianapolis posts, the syntax is site:douglaskarr.com indianapolis.

In researching History Channel, it doesn’t appear that they’re using Google for their internal search - so I’m curious why the mechanism would appear on the SERP?

You might also find these posts interesting:

RSS feed | Trackback URI

Comments »

No comments yet.

Name (required)

E-mail (required - never shown publicly)

URI

Your Comment (smaller size | larger size)

You may use <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> in your comment.

My Comment Policy: I moderate comments. Please be patient:

Spam will happily be destroyed.
Use your real name, not some keywords. Otherwise it will be destroyed.
Mean comments aren't necessary. If I don't post them I will reply personally to let you know why.
Lewd comments will be edited, I don't want my readers leaving because of offensive content.

Great debate, criticism and colorful commentary is always appreciated and approved!

Or add a Video Comment

with