Spell corrected listings show in SERPs

three results in middle of page

[willybfriendly]

I just did a one word search for a small town in wwestern Oregon.

Positions 6, 7, and 8 are set apart by thin blue horizontal lines under a heading "See results for ....", the search term adding one letter to the end of the actual query, and showing results for an automobile with the same spelling as the town except for one additional letter on the end

9, 10 and the following pages are back to normal.

I have found at least one other query that is doing the same. It appears that G is trying to append what it thinks is missing letter(s) to the search term.

New feature?

WBF

[willybfriendly]

Either no one has seen this post, it is old news, or it is just not interesting.

I am seeing the phenomenon across many more queries now. Relatively benign examples include cost, sear, curry, etc.

Postions 6, 7, and 8 are results that look for all the world like paid listings to me. Almost always commercial in nature. Perhaps I am just a cynic though. Those results are certainly taking up some prime real estate.

WBF

[Import Export]

Been seeing it off and on for some time now. I *think* there was another thread on this topic not long ago...

[wanderingmind]

There is a thread on SeoChat about this right now. A bit loud perhaps, but they dont seem to be just spell corrected, they seem to be sponsored results. paid ads. in the middle of the SERPs.

Try this -- type 'add url' into GG and see what happens. For me, that gives strange Add URL to Google kind of results in the middle of SERPs.

If they really are sponsored/ adwords results, U would say the distinction from organic results is negligible.

[willybfriendly]

Nice example, wanderingmind.

Yes, they look commercial to me too. And, the urls all have tracking codes attached, even though other serps do not.

So, one hs to wonder why these are being tracked. A test of a new feature, or a way to generate an invoice?

Surprised there hasn't been more discussion around here.

WBF

[patc]

They're not commercial - click the search query immediately above the inserted SERPS - they're the top 3 organic results from that query. G is suggesting alternative searches but not with commercial results. The tracking will be for them to test their usefulness.

Big thread about this a few days ago: [webmasterworld.com...]