Tag Archives: universal search

20 Types of Blended Search Results: How Businesses Can Leverage Blended Search

A few weeks back I posted about blended search and the various types of blended search results that I have personally seen in the various search engine results pages.   As a refresh, I will list them here again: Types of Blended Search Results Image Results Online Video New Results Blog Listings/Results Book Listings PDFs Local / GEO Search Listings Traditional Text Link Results aka Web Search Product Search Catalog Search Movie Search Music Search Map Search Health Search Celebrity Search Job Search Recipe Search Financial / Stock Search People Search Comparison Search So how can businesses leverage these types of [...]

What is Google’s Universal Search?

Over the past couple of months we have been communicating to our clients as to what Universal Search is.  We thought we would just perform a quick recap of Universal Search for those who still may have questions about it. Breakdown of Universal Search  WHO: GoogleWHAT: A comprehensive way to search for and view information online involving more than just  typical text-based search results.WHERE: Google search results pages.WHEN: Released May 16, 2007.WHY: To provide more comprehensive information to the searcher that includes standard web search results, blog results, images, video results, local/map results, news results, books, patents, finance, code and [...]