Hmm... Maybe I'm slow. Or maybe the publishing speed of the Internet is slow (really?). But I just wanted to be (or try to be) one of the first to document this change (so far as I can tell) to the Google interface.
It all started when I was searching for apache and asp...
EDIT: OMG. It totally disappeared. I'll try to recap what I was looking at but it has since disappeared during the writing of this post. God damnit, Google.
Anyway. Looking for apache and asp, I get search results with this site up on top. But back to the search results page. Usually, for a large site included in the results, there is an indented section for links originating from the same site as the parent result. Below that entry, inside that indent, is a link described as "More results from [domain]".
Here's the kicker. Above that. Or what used to be above that, since it has (since) disappeared was a list of links that looked like top-level sections of that website. So for Apache::ASP, I saw a list of links that looked like INTRO - INSTALL - CONFIG - SYNTAX, just like the top level navigation on that site. I wondering if this was a new thing, so I tried looking for other people to describe it... Asking questions on Google was never really its forte. No avail.
But I did try it with other big keywords, like amazon, ebay, and microsoft. Same thing happened. The Amazon search result was populated with four top level links, just like Amazon's regular shopping site. Something about electronics and babies probably. Ebay, Microsoft, same thing. Microsoft had links to Support, Windows Update, Office... Whatever.
So that's it. And that's me documenting it. I've seen something, Google! And I ain't crazy!!!
Posted by Mark Canlas at July 31, 2005 01:25 PM