Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Tags Appearing in Google Search Results

The Google search results pages look a bit cluttered today because they now display related tags for every website that’s listed on the search page. See screenshot:


For instance, Google has assigned tags like “microsoft chairman” and “inventor of microsoft” to a Bill Gates related page on the Microsoft.com website while the Steve Jobs bio page on Apple.com has tags like “founder of apple” and “apple bios.”

If you click on any of these tag links, you’ll get the related Google search results.

I don’t see a reason why Google would want to display this kind of information in their search pages but its an interesting way to explore how search engines categorize web pages into topics. And since this is just another experiment, you may or may not see tags in your version of Google.

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