Google news results showing in normal SERPS

Never seen this before!

[Haecceity]

While checking a single keyword search relevant to my main site I noticed a kind of listing I'd never seen before -- in tenth place was (hyperlinked) "News results for keyword". The link was accompanied by an image, captioned "New York Times" as well as by a link to an NYT story which looked just like a normal listing except for the "News results for keyword" link immediately above it.

The "News results..." link of course led to a page of Google News results.

Anyone else seeing similar results?

I find it interesting that Google's integrating their own search results pages (for news) into the SERPS. It's also a bummer for me since my site's been knocked off the first page of results.

[steveb]

Yeah they are moving it around. Sometimes at the top of the page, sometimes in the middle, sometimes at the bottom.

[Haecceity]

Your suggestion that they're moving the news result around implies that you don't think these are being treated as normal results. Is that the case?

[steveb]

No.

[whitenight]

Ok, I just saw this for a term that couldn't be more e-commerce related. I dare G to show any metrics where a searcher is looking for "News" on the term.

After reading Adam's lovely post in the "ethics" of Google thread and actually having sympathy for him/them, I'm back to my "always-question-any-G-employee's-motives" mindset.

Sigh. Wonder how much their adwords clicks go up when they place the "News" results smack dab in the middle of SERPS?