Twitter results top Google search
So Twitter is now even more important since it appears that Google has started to roll it out into their results for some searches now.
Currently I can only find it showing when I search specific terms that also relate to twitter user names, although it doesn’t show for everyone I’ve searched for.
For example when I search my twitter user name my 2 last tweets show up above all the rest of the organic results, the same occurred when I search various other terms or people such as bitly, kierondonoghue (sorry mate, you were the first affiliate name that sprang to mind) and DuncanBannatyne.
The DuncanBannatyne search was interesting as it was auto updating as I sat there watching it, so other peoples mentions of @DuncanBannatyne were appearing in the search within minutes of them being posted (definitely expect people to look at ways of spamming these now, although I’m sure both Twitter and Google have measures in place to reduce this!)
Google Checkout discount image with Google Adwords
This is probably old news but I don’t recall spotting it before (and yes that is a bit of a rubbish title to the post but it’s as short as I could make it).
I was just doing a search for “cheap cds” just to see who was appearing in the organic and in the Sponsored Links. I noticed one of the Adwords ads had the Google Checkout logo but this one also had an orange bit added to it with $5 Off (even though I was searching Google UK and filtered to pages from the UK)!
Now I’ve seen plenty of the Google Checkout Adwords ads previously but never these ones with any discount part added to them.
The Google Checkout option wasn’t available for UK visitors to this site. I wanted to go through the checkout process to see if it was a special discount just for those clicking on the Sponsored Link or if it was only available to those who paid with Google Checkout.
As I said, I could well be just massively only seeing something that has been around for ages but I’m fairly certain I’ve not spotted the “Discount Google Checkout” Adwords ads before.
I wonder how long before Discount Vouchers are auto applied to the checkouts of merchants sites providing the user clicks through the “Google Checkout” sponsored links?!