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Noone will find or use those seaches, considering the position on the page. I thik about .56% of all searches actually get to the bottom of page one for any given search, so Google would be doin themselves a favor by mixing this option into Universal Results which seem as of late to appear in position 4 for relevant searches.
2 commentsTuesday, May 6, 2008
Google News Suggests Other Searches
By Doug Caverly
It's not by any means a revolutionary feature, and to be honest, it's probably not even something that you'll use once a day. Still, the introduction of related search suggestions to Google News seems like a solid idea.
After searching for any term, users will now see six related searches at the bottom of the results pages. Sometimes there's an obvious A-to-B connection; sometimes not. Either way, the feature is useful as a sort of general-interest, just-browsing aid.
Google News Suggests Other Searches
It's also handy as a spelling tool. Blame America's school system, its center-of-the-world culture, or my poor brain, but I find some Morgan Tsvangirai's name tricky. On the Google News Blog, Nilesh Agrawal, Sharad Jain, and Deepa Iyer demonstrate that a search for "zimbabwe" provides it as a ready-to-click suggestion.
The three Googlers note, too, "As is normal for Google News, there are no human editors involved in selecting related searches; these suggestions are automatically generated based on an algorithm to determine terms related to your search." So try not to be offended if anything odd pops up.
Really, though, the only thing that seems "wrong" about the related search feature is its low placement on the results pages. Google's got something good here, and it deserves to be more visible than all the "add a custom section" and "add a news gadget" plugs.
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Search related topics in the news section
I think it is a good idea having related topics in the news section. For example, if you were looking space, you could have words like NASA, European Space Agency, Launches, Space Shuttle.
In terms of international spelling for the related words, I think there should be regionalisation. With my site dialashop, I sometimes look up the word shopping to see if there is any useful news to mention on my site and having related keywords is useful.
Vic