Google Trends in the SERPs
If I remember correctly, Google does it’s best to keep results pages out of the SERPs. This is why we don’t see loads of links to other SERPs pages in the search results.
They’ve segregated the news items to their own space slightly above the search results, and ads go where ads go.
With the recent launch of Google trends, one might think that since it’s a Google item, it may be precluded form entering into the overall pool and thus wouldn’t show up in the SERPs. So, far, that’s not the case. Here’s an example passed to me by a friend this morning.
Not sure if what we’re seeing is the normal way things will be, or just an anomaly as the algorithm is told what to do. Regardless, Google items are showing the Google search results.
While this is not a major problem, some may feel it’s credibility killer. For the moment, at least, there don’t seem to be any ads showing alongside Google’s results, but that’s most likely a result of the topic being new and fleeting, so no one has created ads to chase it. If Google were actively disabling ads on pages where their own items showed in search results, well, that could be a major issue for advertisers.
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