Special result for linkedin when you search for 'link'
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Hello everyone,
I found this merely by chance. I wanted to open linkedin on chrome and hasty as I am i just typed 'link'. Wanted google to understand and return linkedin as the first result so i could just click on it.
This is what it returned.
Google allows you to search directly on Linkedin from the results page.
Its quite fascinating for me. I hope my knowledge isn't too outdated.
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It probably can be explained, but sadly not by me!
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Hello Amelia,
Thanks for your response.
You may be right about the point that google might have rolled it out in this region now... but i would doubt it would take a year for the updates to show effect across the world. I deem it would be faster.
I did know it happened for wikipedia... but i only knew it in theory. Actually this is the first time i saw it and the interesting thing is that if you searched for 'linkedin' the results are normal. But a search for 'link' shows this embedded search feature.
Can this be explained?
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They used to let you do the same with wikipedia, seems to not be there today when I search though. Other sites that have this are Amazon and The BBC. I haven't checked for any more though!
I assume it's only high traffic sites that get this. I wonder what the threshold is?
Like you say: fascinating!
BTW, I noticed this ages ago, but that doesn't mean you're knowledge is outdated, it's probably one of those things Google has rolled out at different times in different countries. I can't actually remember the first time I saw it, but it was probably at least a year ago. I'm in the UK.
Best wishes,
Amelia
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