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Google Removes Tips
Google has apparently removed the tips they where showing below the search box. For example: if a search had the word “blog” in it users would see a tip telling people that Blogger was a good place to start a blog. They still advertise their products in the blue Sponsored Link section above search results.
This saves me from creating a Greasemonkey script to remove the tips. I tried briefly but ran into issues when I needed to find which table contained the tip so I could hide it. The tips were bad because they weren’t tied to the actual search context, but rather individual words found within the search keywords. This meant you saw the tips whether people were looking for the Google product or not. Also, in many instances the Google product wasn’t the leader of its category. This gave Google unearned traffic.
Source: Google Blogoscoped (Via Ionut)
Tags: Google
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