Google Launch Teleporting

nikebee · 6 Mar 2008 at 16:36

Not actual teleporting of course, it's just the new name for their new feature.

Pretty groovy news really.

Google have now launched a search within a site function for major websites within their own Google results.

Of course this features has always been there, but now there is physically a second search box rather than having to do

vista site:microsoft.com

It's all algorithmically based, from what I understand if a website is getting a load of people typing the URL into Google, then doing a secondary search after that - Google have started implementing this feature for them.

Try it yourself
Type
Wikipedia, Microsoft or NASA

News from Google themselves.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/search-within-site-tale-of.html

Van Hellseek · 6 Mar 2008 at 16:41

nikebee said:
Not actual teleporting of course

Thread fails.

nikebee · 6 Mar 2008 at 16:43

seek said:
Thread fails.

Hey it's cool news for me, not as cool as actual Teleporting but still cool.

Jon33 · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:10

Sounds nifty

Dracata · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:12

Saw this earlier when I searched for 'University of Kent', from within the results it offered me to search the Kent uni site which I thought was pretty awesome

Ross1234 · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:14

grooooooooooooooooovy

Stretch · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:15

I wike it, I wike it lots

JAMAL · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:16

Should come in handy for rapidshare....

MikeHunt79 · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:22

i found it accidently when looking for the ikea page on uncyclopedia

scorza · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:26

Very nice.

I presume that the target sites (Wikipedia, MS etc) have to enable this somehow or does it happen automatically? If it happens automatically then Google could find themselves in hot water with the authorities for anti-competitive behaviour.

Van Hellseek · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:27

Great for end users, but sounds like it could be a lot more SEO work for webmasters.

nikebee · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:38

seek said:
Great for end users, but sounds like it could be a lot more SEO work for webmasters.

Not really mate, the new search function they've done does the generic site search on Google.

From what the Blog says its mainly for hugely popular sites and people that type the full URL into google and then do a search on the site.

Don't see how this is going to make it any harder for us SEO's at all

Arjun806 · 6 Mar 2008 at 17:49

seek said:
Thread fails.

He got my hopes up, then crushed them... and procceded to smash them with a hammer

Gaverick · 6 Mar 2008 at 18:12

I Just noticed this today when I typed in Durham Uni.

RetiredGreyFox · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:21

Just putting this thread above the other one.

Sp!ke · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:17

So I have to type the site I want to search then the searchstring. Ok for the plebs I guess.

marc2003 · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:26

very handy if you need to search microsoft.com - their own search sucks. given they supposedly want to compete with google, i can't believe how bad their own site search is.....

Beansprout · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:43

Sp!ke said:
So I have to type the site I want to search then the searchstring. Ok for the plebs I guess.

Nothing's changed at all? You can still do site: blah.com as said by the OP.

Sp!ke · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:52

Beansprout said:
Nothing's changed at all? You can still do site: blah.com as said by the OP.

Yeh sorry I wasn't very clear in the post. I meant why bother to do that when I can just type site:blah etc. Just seems a waste of keystrokes to me. I suppose it's useful for people who don't know about Googles advanced features.

nikebee · 7 Mar 2008 at 10:09

Sp!ke said:
I suppose it's useful for people who don't know about Googles advanced features.

Indeed it is, it's all about enhancing the end users experience my friend - and for Mom & Pops I imagine this would be a very good feature to use.