We’re seeing Google add some features to search results as part of Google Plus, such as the ability to share pages that you plus with others and post about them on Google Plus – see Doing more with the +1 button, more than 4 billion times a day. I think it would be great to be able to see annotations about pages and sites that I’ve visited previously in search results. We’re likely to see Google continue to experiment with many different additions to search results in the future, and different capabilities that searchers might be able to take advantage of.
This is one time when I’m actually happy that SEO by the Sea isn’t as close to the sea as it has been in the past. It’s been an interesting week at SEO by the Sea, with an earthquake centered about 60 miles south of here shaking things up earlier in the week, and a possible visit from Hurricane Irene this weekend. One interesting aspect of this invention is that it provides searchers with the ability to share their annotations with other searchers as well. The patent goes into a great amount of detail on how such a search results annotation system might work, including information about the collection of usage information in search results such as mouse-clicks, mouse-overs, impressions for specific pages, times and queries associated with those actions, and more. One such feature enables users to annotate search results, to later recall and view these annotations, and to publish the annotations to other users.Īnother feature involves recording event data reflective of search result viewing events of users, and using this event data to personalize search results pages for particular users. Various features are disclosed for storing and providing access to event data reflective of user-generated events, including events associated with search query submission of users. Van Vleet, Yu-Shan Fung, Ruben Ortega, Udi Manber Search Annotation and Personalization Services The search results annotations patent filing is: Likewise, for results on a forum site or blog, the search results might tell you when you visited specific forum threads or blog posts.
So for instance, on an auction site, Google might annotate search results to tell you which of the auctions listed you’ve seen before, when you viewed them, and even if you’ve submitted a bid on one of those auctions. Imagine if Google provided options within the search results for that specific domain to restrict the results you see to pages that you’ve previously viewed, or pages that you haven’t see yet, or pages that you’ve viewed within a specific period of time, such as the last 7 days. Google allows you to restrict your searches to specific sites using a special “site” search operator like this [site:and will also sometimes provide links in search results during searches without the use of special site operator where you can see “more results” from the same domain. In addition to displaying informative search results annotations, Google might also provide you with some options such as the ability to only see pages that you haven’t visited before during a particular search or only the pages that you have seen. It’s quite likely that Google will continue to experiment with other information that you might be able to see in search results as well.Ī patent application published by Google this week explores some additional search results annotations that you might be able to see, such as whether or not you’ve previously visited a specific page and possibly the date of your last visit, how many times you’ve visited the page, and the queries that you used to find the page, if they are different from the query you used to see the page this time in search results. If you’re logged into your Google Account, you can see other information in Google search results as well. Google is also showing other search results annotations. Google introduced thumbnail previews that you can start seeing if you click upon a magnifying glass next to one of the results.
Google has shown a link to a cached copy of many pages for years, in case a page you’re trying to visit isn’t presently available. Google’s web search results have gone through a number of transformations over the years, from the additions of images and maps and videos and other kinds of results from Google’s vertical search repositories to an autocomplete dropdown of query refinement suggestions.
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