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Google Product Search – Testing Links again?
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Has anyone noticed that the product results in Google have been showing images and not directly linkg through to the site?
A post from the Head of SEO at Latitude, Andy Heaps posted back in December about how Latitude joke about Google’s money making levers – “if profits are down or shareholders unhappy they pick a money generating lever and pull it” highlighted this, and now seems that the same is going on again.
Only today have Google displayed both links and none in their product listings here is the latest of my searches:
Google Products - No links
So does this mean that Google are “pulling the levers” again or trying to improve the users exprerience?
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