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AOL Search Results

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Edouard_H

7:25 pm on May 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Don't recall EVER having seen AOL Search Results show up in Google, but results for a competitor's four word key term are ranking #6 for a term with two of the four and #4 with indented result for a term with three of the four (I'm still holding on to #1).

How and why is Google essentially serving up its own search result as a search result? Has anybody else seen similar?

DynamicStatics

7:37 pm on May 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Not sure exactly what you are talking about but Google has been pwering the results over at AOL since last summer...They are pretty much identicle SERP's
Peace

Perfection

7:40 pm on May 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I think he means he searched for something on Google, and one of the results was an AOL SERP. I think?

hetzeld

7:50 pm on May 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

I don't know about AOL results, but a month ago I had a MSN result listed while searching for inurl:mydomain.com.

And my domain isn't msn.com, of course :)

Dan

Shak

8:02 pm on May 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I am waiting for Google to start serving up Google results :)

On a serious note, I have seen the msn results a number of times, and am not surprised that a fellow member has seen AOL serps in there now.

Its NO good for business, either mine, yours or Googles, so I would definately recommend sending it via feedback at bottom of pages "Dissatisfied with your search results?"

I am sure they will listen in time.

Shak

Edouard_H

8:07 pm on May 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Sorry if I wasn't clear. This appeared on a Google SERP along with an indented result, also an AOL result:

AOL Search: Results for "widgets, widget foo, blah, blah...." Snippet about widgets
search.aol.com/ dirsearch.adp?query=widgets...........

I find it odd that Google's own result can become a result. Incidentally, the aol search was for a key term that noone really searches for except the owners of that site and therefore #1.

<edit>I must've been posting while you were Shak; I'll definetly call this to their attention - I find it generally alarming.