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- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8It's not a BETA!!!
- thripper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you have more than 10.000 hits and press the contact google ... button you follow a link named
: mailto:labs+relatedlinks-premium@google.com
It's the premium word that makes me think about money. - jwest84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I just read the Jack Nielson book on how to design websites. He goes on for about a half page about how people think that linking to external sites is a bad thing. But if you think about it, it will bring people back to your site.
By offereing links to external sites that are of some use. Visitors to your site will remember that your site was useful in finding the other useful sites and they will return.
my 2 cents from Jack Nielson.
- Jon West - madeingermany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3it has nothing to do with the browser...
It just shows the empty search bar, if it can't find anything usefull for the page content you are running the JavaScript on. - maverick999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Exactly. Why would you put this on your site and not get anything out of it? I'll just say no thanks to the Google kool-aid...
- metrofeed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If Google were a non-profit company, this might be interesting. As it is, it seems like another way to get people into AdSense through the back door.
How about someone releasing an open API to do the same thing, using a distributed network to pick up related content? Actually, that probably wouldn't work given the processing power to actually make it useful. Hmm. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Really enjoyed the article you linked to in youir blog- thanks!
- funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah it's like Google AdSense for Dummies. Why not get paid for related links instead? :)
- danielbower, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2nymo: google owns hundreds of weird and wonderful domain names so that it doesn't have to end up paying some virtual squater millions of dollars for the domain rights.
for example: http://www.googlr.com and no this isn't the long awaited google photo everyone has been craving for ;p - JPhantom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Kinda seems like Google's Adsense to me.
- Nymo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What Kinda Intrests Me Is The 'googlesyndication.com' Link, Which Goes To A Regular Google Page But Says 'English' Below..
And On The FAQ ( http://www.google.com/relatedlinks/faq.html ) :
Can I get paid to place Related Links on my site?
Not at this time.
Hmm.. - madeingermany, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I used to do the same thing on my Movabletype Blog with the MTGoogle tag... at least the layout is nicer.
But it never finds any related pages for me, but the finds for Searches, Web Pages and News are pretty relevant.
See an example, where I blogged a recently dugg story:
http://marcofrom.com/archives/2006/03/time_for_a_new.html - lambright, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1At first I thought the idea, was pointless, but now I see the benefit, of course having to explain a benefit is missing it all together. The benefit as I see it, is that it provides more data in the same space as the previous google banners, thus increasing the likelihood of somebody clicking, and thus increasing the overall all effectiveness of a google ad placement. It also makes me think that if google is coming up with this, there must be a perceived threat on the horizon, such as something from yahoo or maybe even the http://Adbrite.com
Cheers
Wayne
http://sfsurvey.com - andymitchell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A Firefox extension does something similar - Bumble Search.
Before I continue, I'll give a disclaimer - I'm the humble author of the extension I'm about to describe! Therefore, if you think this is dreadful hawking, feel free to mod me down.
Bumble Search can, for any website on the web, analyse a combination of the title/major-keywords-in-the-page and pump those words into many (any, infact - you choose) search engines on the web; including Google's 'Related Links', or Alexa's 'Related Sites'.
It's aim is really to help the user find more pages like the one they're on: i.e. find more information.
I admit, as the author, this functionality works very well on some websites, but is not so useful on others - fortunately it can target some sites to do more accurate cross-linking (hopefully a Digg/Slashdot mod is coming in a few weeks as part of a much needed overhaul!).
The website is: http://www.bumblesearch.com - fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's worse than "Hmmm."
If you have adsense links where you WILL get paid, you'd have to be out of your mind to provide a series of "leave my page without paying" links to water down your income. - Laurentvw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nonono, you guys don't get it, I think Google wants to help us understand what they think is related to our site. Very interesting for SEO, if you get what I mean...
- fiv3isaliv3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A google product not in Beta? Odd.
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My main question here is: if I'm a webmaster for a site that isn't a news aggregator, why would I want to send people somewhere else away from my site? (Probably somewhere getting paid for AdSense, too...)
- DoctorEvil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't think anyone would argue the merit of it not making smarter use of space. The argument is why should commercial websites give up that space without any re-imbursement? We can already include google ad links, anyone clicking those see's links related to your site which you can derive revenue from.
This box is nothing more than a syndicated feed of related content. If you like promoting google products for free (what's their stock at now?), by all means put it on your site. I just don't see the real value-add of promoting other websites or content that you're not in control of (link partners) or not deriving revenue from.
Would this even be news, or even be considered by site owners if Microsoft announced and released this? I think not. - HiddenPeanuts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I popped it in my sidebar just to see how it works. Sort of interesting to see what Google thinks is related to what I write, but not anything I'll keep around.
- DoctorEvil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Worthless. At least you get paid for displaying ad links, no webmaster that needs to monetize their site is going to take up valuable space to promote syndicated google content. Just say no to the google kool-aid.
- Thezeppelin62, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3kinda lame
- Rodeoclash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Maybe if it returned results from your domain that were related to the page it would be useful, but as it is now I don't really understand what it would be useful for.
- vandykee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1doesnt even work. could be webrick.
- froinlaven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So it's Adsense, except you don't get paid. Great!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I asked this very question on my blog yesterday.
Do you link-out excessively?
http://powerplayers.blogspot.com/2006/04/do-you-link-out-excessively.html - rino, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Kind of lame. No money for embedding your site with junk???
This is value added??? I want some of that 400.00 dollar stock too... must make you have reality distortion to be so rich. - sfouladi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3no, you're wrong.
If you have more than 10,000 hits a day, you should contact them for this. If you have less than 10000 hits a day, you can use it! - andymitchell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In response to bumblebee2u (nice name btw, coincidence no?!)...
Bumble Search is a Firefox extension that injects the links into a little box at the top of the page... only when you view it.
It is not used by website owners to modify their websites; but by web surfers who visit them. - scanman20, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7Too bad you can't read. "For websites that have over 10,000 hits a day, please contact the Google team." Everyone can use it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So if we don't have an AdWords account- there is no chance of our site getting listed in the box?
What about the "news" feature?
A pretty vague looking tool, I dunno. - neofactor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2On a mac in Firefox... I get nothing but a search bar that opens to a new normal google return page.
- xaviers, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0why is it coming up as a search field?
- dude3609, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2this is really broke. Heres a demo: http://poxy.us.to/google.htm
Its nothin more then a search box that searches japanese google. :x
Well, it is right now anyways. - dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2lol
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1Portuguese / Brazilian : http://www.htk.com.br/noticia.php?noticia=428
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http://www.htk.com.br/ - arbyn, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1Great idea, too bad they want sites with 10,000 or more hits a day.
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