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The Google Home Page is getting extremely crowded lately. First, they squeezed the sidebar AdWords listings closer to the organic results. Then they added “microformat”, Images in the sidebar product ads, “Google Checkout” buttons, snippets, and “Shopping results” WITH images, right in the organic results. Then came breadcrumbs, and what people are starting to report – THREE entries in the organics for some top listings. The result is serious implications for the visitor experience, and the job of SEO…
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from Ruud 811 Days ago #
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One of the best take-aparts of what’s been happening to Google’s pages that I’ve read in the past couple of months.

The other day I shared how much I *enjoy* (as in: fun, pleasant, nice, feel-good) using Bing at the moment.

Before adding this comment I went back to do another search and [blows out air] what a breath of fresh air; look at those result pages — wasn’t Google once this simple, clean and straightforward?



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