Comments on: Some not happy with Google’s inline search http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/ Where TV Finds the Future Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:57:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Yatendra Kumar Singh http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-824508 Yatendra Kumar Singh Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:46:09 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-824508 Alas! Alas!

]]> By: discreet_chaos http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-818226 discreet_chaos Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:30:23 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-818226 Anonymous - While true... Internet Explorer was just a browser, but what got Microsoft in trouble was the fact that they bundled it with the operating system. Anonymous - While true… Internet Explorer was just a browser, but what got Microsoft in trouble was the fact that they bundled it with the operating system.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-817725 Anonymous Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:46:31 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-817725 All it is is a site search, which has been available on Google for a very, very long time. You can perform the same search this way, if you prefer: jobs site:nwsource.com or jobs site:amazon.com All it is is a site search, which has been available on Google for a very, very long time. You can perform the same search this way, if you prefer:

jobs site:nwsource.com

or

jobs site:amazon.com

]]> By: oakling http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-817470 oakling Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:27:51 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-817470 It seems so stupid to me that they would object to this. I have often had to resort to Google after trying repeatedly to get some kind of sense out of the search engines on local newspaper sites. The smaller papers often have terrible search engines, and the larger ones may have better search engines but often throw in content from other papers their company runs. And especially with newspaper classifieds, a lot of them forego making their own classified ads available online at all and instead use one of those national or international classified ad sites that goes around pressuring newspapers to use their web services. Which means that instead of seeing ads for local lost cats, I get a bunch of pretty generic or totally irrelevant ads for schnauzers being sold in Alabama and a lost cat 500 miles from me and.... If they want Google to stop trumping them, they should just use Google's free search box on their sites. It's senseless to be like, "Our users are going to use Google.com to search for our stuff and see competing ads because our site's search is so terrible! Google must stop!" It seems so stupid to me that they would object to this. I have often had to resort to Google after trying repeatedly to get some kind of sense out of the search engines on local newspaper sites. The smaller papers often have terrible search engines, and the larger ones may have better search engines but often throw in content from other papers their company runs. And especially with newspaper classifieds, a lot of them forego making their own classified ads available online at all and instead use one of those national or international classified ad sites that goes around pressuring newspapers to use their web services. Which means that instead of seeing ads for local lost cats, I get a bunch of pretty generic or totally irrelevant ads for schnauzers being sold in Alabama and a lost cat 500 miles from me and….

If they want Google to stop trumping them, they should just use Google’s free search box on their sites. It’s senseless to be like, “Our users are going to use Google.com to search for our stuff and see competing ads because our site’s search is so terrible! Google must stop!”

]]> By: discreet_chaos http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-817190 discreet_chaos Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:49:21 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-817190 Not to toot my own horn, but I touched upon this issue and the question of pageviews in my last two comments to Cory's original post. Not to toot my own horn, but I touched upon this issue and the question of pageviews in my last two comments to Cory’s original post.

]]> By: Renee http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-817104 Renee Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:32:00 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2008/03/24/some-not-happy-with-googles-inline-search/#comment-817104 I was waiting for some backlash on this. What's good for a user isn't always good for the publisher or retailer. I wonder how much the inline search for Amazon.com affected Amazon's page views and traffic? I was waiting for some backlash on this. What’s good for a user isn’t always good for the publisher or retailer.

I wonder how much the inline search for Amazon.com affected Amazon’s page views and traffic?

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