Need Some Yahoo Therapy?
Google’s got some weird “See results for” suggestions once in a while, but this one takes the cake. Search for “therapy products“, and Google suggests searching for “yahoo”. Why?
Well, there’s actually one legitimate explanation: As far as we know, the “See results for” feature works by noticing if a large number of searchers followed up one search with an immediate refinement in their search. For example, if Google sees that a bunch of people searched for “Ford”, and then immediately added “Ford cars” to refine their search, then Google tries to help everybody out by asking if you’d like to do the same, and showing you the first three results.
My guess is that since the results for “therapy products” are actually pretty useless on Google, a lot of searchers immediately decided that they’d be better off with Yahoo. And since plenty of people know that you can get to Yahoo by just searching for it on Google, they did and… tada! And that is why Google thinks Yahoo is your next best bet after a search like this. Mystery solved.
(via Barry)
Or they could use Kamambe.
Comment by Jason Schramm | July 9, 2006
Wow! That is indeed interesting that Google would be nice enough to please it’s customers by linking to the competition.
Comment by mark | July 9, 2006
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Comment by Javier Tadefa | July 10, 2006
Nice info. Btw what do you mean by “therapy products” are useless for Google?
Comment by Vadivel | July 10, 2006
Vadivel, what I said was that Google’s results that it shows if you search for “therapy products” are relatively useless.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | July 11, 2006
Has anyone considered that this may not be deliberate and possible just another tweek by some google techi that went wrong?
Just goes to prove as a search engone google is crap.
Comment by Les | July 12, 2006
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