[Sigia-l] new Yahoo! search

[Boniface Lau]

> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> Behalf Of Simon Wistow
>
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:06:17PM -0400, Boniface Lau said:
> > ISTM, Google acknowledges the fact that people go to Google not
> > for clicking on ads. Thus, Google places the ads to the side. In
> > contrast, Yahoo!'s sandwiching of the search result with sponsor
> > results is in-your-face and therefore off-putting.
>
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=amazon
>
> *cough* [0]

I hope it is not SARS. <grin>


>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=amazon
>
> Bizarrely this is the same, just a different colour. I include it
> for completeness.

I am not sure what you were trying to say with the above links - those
pages don't have any sponsored links. Here is a screen capture of what
I saw:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/boniface_lau/images/googleAmazon.jp
g


To see what I was referring to in my previous message, try

http://www.google.com/search?q=mug

Here is a screen capture of what I saw:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/boniface_lau/images/googleMug.jpg


>
> The odd thing is that having seen metrics and usability reports from
> working at a completely different search engine (I'm not allowed to
> comment on the one that I currently work for) is that people *like*
> clicking on sponsored links.

Isn't it similar to saying people like to click on banner ads? I find
that hard to believe. Can you tell us more about the reports?


Boniface