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 search results?  Well if you look at the list above, you may notice that there is one item that is consistent and [...]

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 catalogs.
Simply put, [...]