Google launched instant search a couple of weeks ago with promises of speed and hours of time saved. How much time? Ally, our newest addition here at Nine By Blue, put together an infographic on just what Google Instant means for searchers. What are you going to spend all that saved time on? I would like to say I’ll spend it lounging on the beach with a fruity drink, but my guess is I’ll spend it answering more email.
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Dear Vanessa,
First of all I have to admit I have been a lurker here for a long time, time to pay my dues and make a first post. I have a question regarding google instant and then an unrelated question, I hope you don’t mind
First of all, is it safe to assume that the order in which google instant results are displayed are ranked in search volume? For instance, whatever is displayed first in the list is the most searched term in your country of origin for whatever letters you have already typed in? Do past searches and or google account history affect the instant results?
Secondly, a while ago I commented on a few blogs, naturally since I have my own website, I filled in the URL to be included in my post. One of the blogs was running a certain widget which made my comment, including my url-link, display on all 800 pages of the blog under ‘recent comments’. It is a very active blog, it must get crawled very frequently as I am now sitting on 1000+ backlinks from this domain alone. I thought the backlinks would vanish as soon as my comment was bumped down by other people posting, but alas. It’s been over a month now and I’m worried google will see this as some kind of spam attempt and somehow ‘slap’ or ‘sandbox’ my website. The thing is, I have reason to believe the backlinks have actually boosted my ranking, I am now ranking page 1, about 8 spots before I got my link-injection. I just want to know if there could be any consequences, how I can deal with this in the future and if there is already something in the algorithm that deals with this.
Regards from rainy Amsterdam,
Gary
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Vanessa,
Thanks so much for responding to my post today on this infographic.
It clears up my questions
My personal experience is that Instant changes what I type as I am searching based on what the results look like. This is especially true when I am trying to find something like a movie title for example.
John.
What I don’t like about instant is that it
kills long tail creativity by offering searchers a costum made search terms.
Sometimes nothing happens on longer search phrases and it can leave the searcher confused. They are used to instant and then nothing happens, so there is a delay in them thinking to click on Search. Also, presenting more choices could lead to more critical thinking, also delaying the decision.