Pod1 is a Creative Digital Agency with offices in London and New York. We're the UK's fastest growing Web design & build Agency and we deliver outstanding Online Marketing campaigns and provide excellent Online Strategies.


 
Content
April 23, 2008 by FS

UNIQLO at it again with ‘UT-Loop’


March 20, 2008 by JP

Search within a search within a search

Recently I was searching for certain big brands on Google and I started finding a new feature in the results, which Google has quietly slipped in there. It’s a search box that site beneath the site links in some brand name searches. I first saw it on results for Virgin Holidays (One of Pod1’s favourite clients), but there seem to be a few other sites, such as Audi which also have this box.

 

The search box apparently allows you to search the site without needing to go to it first. This saved a fair bit of time, especially with graphics heavy sites that take forever to load. I managed to get to the page I wanted in about half the usual amount of time.

The first question I heard when I asked other people about it was ‘How do I get that for my site?’ The answer, of course, was ‘I don’t know,’ a very common problem when it comes to Google and natural search. The inevitable next question is ‘ Will it affect natural search rankings?’, however I don’t think this will be the case.

As far as I can see the main factor in whether a site is ‘blessed’ with one of these boxes seems to be the amount of searches that take place on a site. Unfortunately, this is not a good reflection on site structure and navigation. While I wish all my clients had a search box like Virgin Holidays, I can help feeling proud that visitors don’t have to use the search box to find the page they want.

As the search box becomes as standard as site links have become now, the benefits and drawbacks of it will become more apparent. For the moment though it’s just something cool to play with, a sign that Google is still trying to be innovative on some level.

November 20, 2007 by Marc

Pod1 New York /// The $1500 Keyboard from Art Lebedev Studio

Art Lebedev Studio are currently taking pre-orders for the Omtimus Maximus keyboard. You’ve got to check this out!
The Optimus Maximus Keyboard

November 1, 2007 by SM

Experiments in the bedroom

Inspired by many isometric and bitmap experiments on the web and using the Color, BitmapData, 9-Slice Scaling, the FLVPlayback Component and a few other bits of ActionScript to glue it all together, clever Trevor has managed to create a 3D isometric pixelated copy of an FLV sequence.

Check it out at TrevorBoyle.com.

Trevor Boyle

Categories:

Search this blog

Archives