New-To-Me Site-Search Within Google Results

This morning I was searching for news reports on the status of Aaron Miller’s shoulder injury (oh, oh, Ohlund). As I usually do, I searched in Google, and went to click the News link to switch from web results to recent news. Before I did, I noticed something new in the search results:

There’s a site-search field underneath the results for Canucks.com. That’s a handy innovation. The subtext is “we’re pretty sure we know where you want to go, but your search was too vague”. How long has this been around?

UPDATE: I note that when I search for “Apple”, I don’t get the search field. Odd. I wonder what Google’s criteria is.

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5 Responses to “New-To-Me Site-Search Within Google Results”

Sean Hagen Says:
March 7th, 2008 at 8:28 am
The search on Canucks.com is power by “Google Search Appliance”. I wonder if that has anything to do with it? Do other sites that use Google to do in-site searching show up with that search bar?
JohnB Says:
March 7th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I don’t see the secondary search box :-(

I tried both http://www.google.ca and http://www.google.com/ncr (which forces Google to use Google.com instead of redirecting to a localized Google.
Pete Quily Says:
March 8th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
I see it, and if i google my name, it also lists 8 sections within my website after the description.

It doesn’t default to my blog but to my website. It seems to list some of the most popular pages on my site. I assume they chose the 8 sections by pagerank or incoming traffic volume.

I use the basic google search (not the search appliance) on my site.
http://www.addcoach4u.com/searchaddcoach4u.html

I think it’s been around for at least a month.
Pete Quily Says:
March 8th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
strange, I get the 8 for apple in camino and firefox
JohnB Says:
March 9th, 2008 at 8:19 am
I tried again, still no luck :-(

I went to Google.ca and google.com/ncr and entered “Pete Quily” (no quotes). The search page returned your site at the top with 8 sections (support groups, symptoms of, …) but no secondary search box.

I’ve tried both Opera (my default), Firefox and IE to see if the problem was with the browser. I see the same display from each.

Suggestions anyone?

darrenbarefoot.com

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