{"id":11644,"date":"2011-11-08T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T13:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=11644"},"modified":"2011-11-08T10:21:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:21:48","slug":"google-sources-look-familiar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/08\/google-sources-look-familiar\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sources Look Familiar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck by the obvious similarity between the visual aspects of the new Local OneBox and the <a href=\"http:\/\/searchengineland.com\/confirmed-google-testing-new-sources-display-in-search-results-100261\">Google test of the Sources display<\/a> first spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/108621512304373089316\/posts\/bBMbKGJZ1QZ\">Cyrus Shepard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Google has been on a tear of late in local to gather photos and <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/21\/google-places-reputation-management-from-g-to-x-rated-in-no-time-flat\/\">display them on your Place page<\/a>. One assumes that this effort is on going in other topical areas as well.<\/p>\n<p>Google is currently showing similar results to the Sources test for bricks and mortar businesses and geographical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=statue+of+liberty&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">points of interest<\/a>. \u00a0What better way to demonstrate that universal results are nothing but search results rather than &#8220;other Google products&#8221;? Products, online retailers, celebrities, movies, TV shows etc all would lend themselves to the first page search result treatment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sourcs-v-onebox4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sourcs-v-onebox4.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"sourcs-v-onebox4\" width=\"520\" height=\"362\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sourcs-v-onebox4.gif 598w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sourcs-v-onebox4-286x200.gif 286w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/sourcs-v-onebox4-520x362.gif 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was struck by the obvious similarity between the visual aspects of the new Local OneBox and the Google test of the Sources display first spotted by Cyrus Shepard. 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