Linking to "Search Powered by google "'s Sites

linking to your results at search pages powerd by google

[Abdelrhman Fahmy]

What about linking to the page contain my site url in the results of the “search pages powered by google” like the one at cnn.com

And here I’m talking about the search pages powered by APIs not those one which forward you to the google web site

is that will affect the PR or not

examples of sites powered by google with API
www.cnn.com
google.btopenworld.com/dynamic/search/google_search_panel.jsp

[WebGuerrilla]

I think you'll find that most sites using Google have the search pages excluded in their robots.txt [cnn.com]

[Abdelrhman Fahmy]

But if they didn't exclude it, is that means that cnn linking to your web site

[Dolemite]

Give them some credit...I'm guessing those 70 Ph.D's would have had that nailed down by now even if they'd gotten their degrees out of Cracker Jack boxes.

[thewebboy]

Actually google does index some of its own results on the ICQ web search....

[web.icq.com...]

[ytswy]

But if they didn't exclude it, is that means that cnn linking to your web site

Yes, but unless CNN link to this specific SERP themselves (highly unlikely) then its not going to pass on any of CNN's page rank.

What will in fact happen (disclaimer: based on my understanding of PR) is that your link will provide this page with all its PR. This will get passed to all the pages this SERP links to - probably some internal links to CNN + the sites linked in the search results themsleves.

So you will get a small fraction of the PR you gave it in the first place, as will the other sites listed in the SERP - probably your competitors.

It seems quite a few people are doing this at the moment - a number of my backlinks listed by Google are SERP pages. Which is nice for me, but I don't think it is what was intended.