My Google Search Results are Different Today

[writtenstyle]

So, I am not logged in and using Incognito Browsing. When I searched Barack Obama I get a bio where the PPC ads usually are, along with books he wrote. Click on one of the books, and you get the search results, but a bio of the book you clicked on.

It also works on Glenn Beck and others. I have not seen this before today.

 

[Bofu2U]

Sounds like G+

 

[writtenstyle]

That's what I thought. But, I am not logged into anything.

http://imgur.com/K5S9c

 

[dchuk]

it's part of their whole movement to provide answers rather than search results. It's just like what they (previously) have been doing for weather, just a lot more robust:

 

[nepster]

cool.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

it's part of their whole movement to provide answers rather than search results. It's just like what they (previously) have been doing for weather, just a lot more robust:

And how they handle flight inquiries now:

I bet Priceline, Expedia etc are sick about this shit.

 

[mx=headroom]

And then you have Brin bitching about competition and that apps and facebook aren't propagating an open, crawlable web. Google co-founder: China, Apple, Facebook threaten the 'open Web' - CNN.com

Brin lists several other threats to the open Web (and to Google):

-- Smartphone apps, as led by Apple: "all the information in apps -- that data is not crawlable by Web crawlers. You can't search it."

-- Facebook, where data goes in but never comes out: "Facebook has been sucking down Gmail contacts for many years."​

Yet all they do is crawl data, present it through their website while wrapping ads around it and giving no credit to the originating author.

 

[MartilloDan]

And how they handle flight inquiries now:

I bet Priceline, Expedia etc are sick about this shit.

Google is an affiliate!

 

[ThisWebThing]

Im sure the G wouldnt mind if you had that many ads on your page.. that page looks like garbage with that many ads... the lax to dfw one.

it looks sort of like an old mfa scraper site.

 

[r3p1v]

Looks like they are just trying to promote G+ to me.

 

[dmnEPC]

And then you have Brin bitching about competition and that apps and facebook aren't propagating an open, crawlable web. Google co-founder: China, Apple, Facebook threaten the 'open Web' - CNN.com

Yet all they do is crawl data, present it through their website while wrapping ads around it and giving no credit to the originating author.

That picture is backwards the tea pot called the kettle black