{"id":17080,"date":"2014-08-18T16:49:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=17080"},"modified":"2014-08-18T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T21:08:01","slug":"google-search-results-11-ads-1-directory-and-3-stinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/18\/google-search-results-11-ads-1-directory-and-3-stinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Test Search Results &#8211; 11 Ads, 1 Directory and 3 Stinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/18\/google-testing-carousel-replacement\/\">testing<\/a> a mobile style 3 pack as a replacement for the carousel. <\/p>\n<p>Whether a test or not, this test search result is quite amazing. I have a fairly large Thunderbolt display with a resolution of 2560 x 1440. That is more vertical resolution than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/browsers\/browsers_display.asp\">66% of all computers<\/a> on the market as of January, 2014 according to w3schools.com. Even so this result is quite incredible in just how absolutely awful it is. <\/p>\n<p>With my browser window stretched to the full height of the display, above the fold there are 11 ads, 1 organic directory listing, a map and <del datetime=\"2014-08-18T20:58:36+00:00\">3<\/del> 2.5 hold your nose stinky local results. The move away from a carousel which had a certain balance to the ranking and possibly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.localseoguide.com\/google-local-desktop-serps-continue-to-get-more-mobile\/\">away from the 7 pack<\/a> towards just 3 results is jarring enough. But the amazing preponderance of paid and the near complete absence and terrible quality of the organic and local results leaves one&#8217;s jaw on the floor. <\/p>\n<p>I guess that Google has finally given up on any form of local listing or organic page relevance and has decided that relevance is a function of payment. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17081\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-18-at-4.40.27-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-18-at-4.40.27-PM-789x1024.png\" alt=\"Click to view larger (although be sure to keep airsickness bag handu)\" width=\"474\" height=\"615\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-18-at-4.40.27-PM-789x1024.png 789w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-18-at-4.40.27-PM-154x200.png 154w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-18-at-4.40.27-PM-462x600.png 462w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-18-at-4.40.27-PM.png 974w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to view larger (although be sure to keep airsickness bag handu)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is apparently testing a mobile style 3 pack as a replacement for the carousel. Whether a test or not, this test search result is quite amazing. I have a fairly large Thunderbolt display with a resolution of 2560 x 1440. That is more vertical resolution than 66% of all computers on the market as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17080"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17091,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17080\/revisions\/17091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}