Comments on: The SEO Impact Of Google Instant Previews

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:48:53 +0000

“5 percent more likely isn’t much when you consider the billions of searches that take place.”

Uh…5% of 1 billion is 50,000,000. That seems like quite a bit to me!

By: Dumba

Dumba — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:57:23 +0000

Good work, Bethany. It’ll be interesting to see if this catches on and how it affects the way that we build and maintain our pages.

Also, Ray, your point seems counterintuitive. The more web searches conducted, the more significant a seemingly small percentage increase (e.g., 5%) in user satisfaction becomes. The fact that there are billions of searches each day could mean that there are now tens of millions of people who are more satisfied with their searches than they would have been without the Instant Preview feature.

Keep up the good work, Bethany.

By: Trafficfundi SEO

Trafficfundi SEO — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:01:28 +0000

Very interesting. I actually noticed this about a month or two back when they were testing it. I wonder if it’s going to stick though, I think it totally detracts from search to be honest.

My eyes start wondering and I end up not actually finding what I want or start getting orritated.

To be honest I think Google needs to watch out for adding too many visual stimulants. We might all move to BING…

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 03:56:25 +0000

5 percent more likely isn’t much when you consider the billions of searches that take place. It’ll still pay dividends to be in one of the top spots.

Also I think this may effect shopping type sites more but for people looking for information and not products website owners probably won’t be as effected.

Ray