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Google Tests "Commercial" Results In Organic Listings

Google is testing interspersing alternate listings that appear to be commercial in nature into its natural, or organic, search results. A recent search for "on demand," for example, returned an area delineated off from natural results, occupying the above-the-fold sixth through eighth positions in the organic results area of the page. Within the clearly demarcated but unlabeled space were three listings for Comcast services.

Read the whole story at ClickZ, August 19, 2005 »

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