Google Counts Twitter in Some SERP Suggestions

Read it and weep. Google seems to be testing even deeper integration of real-time search in SERPs (search engine results pages). Either that or maybe it’s a bug.  Check out these suggestion results (found at the bottom of the SERP) for our KnowEm friend, Michael Streko.

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Obviously, Google is now cruising real-time search and Twitter for SERPs suggestions. Here’s where that suggestion is derived from:

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As background, “Suggestions” are inserted by Google at the bottom of some results pages. There are few (if any) proven SEO tactics to place or predict suggestion links.

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Here’s Google’s suggestions for “AIMCLEAR.”

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One suggestion seems to be derived from Google’s real-time search indexing of @seosnack’s multiple retweets of our stuff.

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It is unclear what types of searches Google will trigger these new suggestions. For instance a search for “@beebow,” the Twitter handle of AIMCLEAR‘s Lauren Litwinka, does not trigger real-time search suggestions, nor does her name; no real-time search results, either. (But we still love her 🙂 .)

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The results are also intermittent from search to search for the same keyword and we’ve not found commercial results outside of the search industry as of yet. This may be a limited test.

Anyway, this is an interesting development as Google continues is foray into real-time search.

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