Alireza Sefati Blog

Technology - It seems that Google is starting to realize that just returning a raw list of websites when someone searches for a keyword is no longer attractive to users. I see they are testing categorizing and grouping search results based on the type of the site on certain keywords. It looks more beta right now but I think Google is on the right track.

Search Engines have always wondered me from day one. Back in college when studying computer science, it was easy to reverse engineer most search engines algorithms becasue they were a lot simpler. Most of the relied on the same basic computer science search concepts so it was easy to figure out what they were doing. But Alta Vista first, then Google revolutionized the search concept and made search engine algorithms more complex.

But I think Google is now taking an advance step to categorize the search based on the type of the site. So when typing up a keyword, Google may group some sites together based on their type and gives returns you multiple sections. That way you can choose better what site you are looking for.

For example if you type a certain soccer ball into search engine, Google may return a group with all the ecommerce sites that sell that particular ball, then may offer you group websites that maybe not belling the ball but they are talking about it. For example blogs.

You can only see this for only a certain keywords at this time. It comes randomly on certain keywords. As I said it looks more like in beta right now.

I will post more about this once I find out more.