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Is Google Making Site Search Redundant?

Pete Watson-Wailes

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Pete Watson-Wailes

Is Google Making Site Search Redundant?

This YouMoz entry was submitted by one of our community members. The author’s views are entirely their own (excluding an unlikely case of hypnosis) and may not reflect the views of Moz.

Here's an interesting thought... You're Google. You have every page on everyone's site in the world (or near as makes no odds) indexed. What more can you do with that information?

Well, how about providing a search function for that person's site? Looks like that's what the big G is thinking at the moment at any rate. Have a look at the following examples, and see what I mean.

Microsoft

Microsoft Google screenshot

House of Fraser

House of Fraser Google screenshot

Marks and Spencer

M&S Google screenshot

Ubuntu

Ubuntu Google screenshot

Red Hat 

Red Hat Google screenshot

TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor Google screenshot

Patterns

So far, I've only been able to generate these search boxes doing brand names searches that return sites with tens of thousands of pages, and that have sitelinks. In about ten minutes, I've been able to pull up these six, and a couple of others (New York Times and Channel 4).

Has anyone else managed to get this, and if so, what were you searching for?

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