Comments on: Google Search Box Ads

By: colbert

colbert — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:29:15 +0000

search boxes are quite convenient for lazy people like me

By: Frank Johnson

Frank Johnson — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:25:03 +0000

Personally, I don’t use search boxes at blogs all that often, for a couple of reasons.

1) My blog-reading habits generally make sitewide searches less important. If I’m reading a blog every day (as I do with ProBlogger!), why search the site. The only time I will search is if I suspect there might be something on the site that was posted prior to my first finding the site.

2) I find absolutely no use for searching the whole web from a blog. Why not just go to Google – it’s much more ingrained in my thinking to type http://www.google.com in the address bar than to look on a blog to see if they have a search box which will allow me to search the web as a whole.

If, as I suspect is true, most users have similar approaches to mine, then the google search box won’t earn much revenue for most people because most people won’t use it.

By: Screen Rant

Screen Rant — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:28:15 +0000

I don’t like it. For one thing, if you really want folks to find info on your site, the built in search mechanism is much more effective and indexes pages as you create them.

Vic

By: Ugo Cei

Ugo Cei — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:11:15 +0000

In my experience, it works very verry little. For the future, I am thinking about doing my own search box and maybe using the results page to present targeted ads, at least for in-site searches.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:26:12 +0000

Awesome timing for this question/answer. I was thinking about the search box earlier this morning and when I came home today…poof there it was! Thanks again Darren!