Google instant results different to results shown when press enter
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A client's site, www.duorol.co.uk is top (or second if a youtube video makes an appearance) for the term duorol if you press enter after typing it in to google UK. Before you press enter though, their site is not listed in the results bought back for instant search.
It's the same behaviour in incognito mode too. Very weird I thought. Does anyone have any ideas please?
Their site's only been live about a month. Could that be anything to do with it?
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Thanks you so much, it seems obvious now you've pointed it out. Thank you for your help!
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The reason is that the instant search is looking up "duorol blinds" and not just "duorol". You can see the query box adds in the gray text "blinds" which means it is including that keyword in the query.
Likewise, if you compare the instant search results to the results for "duorol blinds", you'll see they are identical.
I believe the the standalone keyword "duorol" is not popular enough to be a suggested search and the instant search automatically adds "blinds" as this is more commonly searched.
Cheers,
Oleg
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