Google in Aol Search Results

And I mean *in* them...

[Josk]

This may gone soon, but have a look at these results...

[search.aol.com...]

Googleguy might want to have a word with aol/inktomi...

[Marcia]

Yep, it's right there Josk, sitting at #11:

monitors
[google.com...]

[cfel2000]

Superb! Noone alert them. This has made my day. Purely brilliant.

Now all we can do is hope Google start to actually power AOL SERP's. Hopefully, they will make a move to try and get rid of INK.

[Josk]

ok...it doesn't show up until #35 for me... But the question si why is it there? Wouldn't this be a violation of google's terms of service?

Hmm...aol being banned from google...there's a nice thought...

[gethan]

This is due to a link in the ODP - directly into the google search results. I couldn't find the one that is mentioned here (probably removed - the AOL dir is a little old) but look at this cat.

[dmoz.org...]
Jini Advisor archives is a direct link.

It's probably the editor of a cat being helpful ... (but why not just say that it is a google search for a widget? - can't think it would help PR as google surely would filter out its own search results pages.)

The reason it appears in the results of the aol dir search is that its just a dumb search based on the descriptions in the ODP.

[mayor]

cfel2000 >> Hopefully, they will make a move to try and get rid of INK.

IMHO, if you've learned to play the Ink card you wouldn't be saying this.

[cfel2000]

mayor >> IMHO, if you've learned to play the Ink card you wouldn't be saying this.

I'm top of INK and as such have 'learned to play the Ink card', however, I am also top of Google and believe Google is a better engine. This is why I want rid of Ink. I think it will benefit all the newbie internet users.

[chiyo]

mayor, can you let us know how to play the ink card (without paying)? Their ranking system is a mystery to me.

[backus]

Never paid for Ink, never will. Always had good results and never had to pay! Thanks to Goo!

[stcrim]

I guess I don't get it. I don't see anything that would indicate that Google is likely to provide results for AOL (though their search quality would benefit it they did)

-s-

[mayor]

Chiyo>>mayor, can you let us know how to play the ink card (without paying)?

From my experience, you have to pay to play the Ink card these days. (But I really haven't tried Goo much)

If you do some analysis to get non-competitive keyword phrases that aren't buried under the MSN directory listings you just might be able to have your Ink indexing fee covered before the credit card bill shows up in the mail (assuming you run a commercial site).

Apply your optimization strategy to MSN. Then you should get AOL traffic as well.

If you are fortunate enough to have some non-paid pages in the Ink database, studying the keywords they draw traffic on can be a big help in finding new keywords that will work.

From my experience, the ranking system seems the same for paid and non-paid pages, and standard optimization of pages for Ink is discussed in other threads.

[TallTroll]

A related incident - a spot in the BTopenworld search results [synd-uk.looksmart.co.uk] (L$ with Ink filler) is returning a Lycos SERP at #28

Ink sin again....