{"id":1632,"date":"2008-12-06T23:04:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T04:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T21:22:11","slug":"is-the-search-result-sandwich-a-flaw-in-googles-custom-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/12\/06\/1632\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the &#8220;search result sandwich&#8221; a flaw in Google&#8217;s custom search?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/search_result_sandwhich_logged_in.jpg\"title=\"A search result sandwich\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes when people google something and visit my website because of the search result, I try the search again to see if my website&#8217;s placement has changed.  I also like to see what other websites are nearby and possible related content.  Last month <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/search-experiments-large-and-small.html\">Google added a new feature<\/a> that allows users to customize their search results.  It allows people to remove results from their queries and add notes to different search results.  Last night I noticed that when I was logged into Google, the search results featuring my website would sometimes show up twice and in some cases they would sandwich a different search result.  Notice in the screen grab above that my website is featured twice on either side of a different search result.  For comparison purposes, below, you can see a screen grab of a search result when I&#8217;m not logged into Google.  Of note is that my website still shows up twice, but it&#8217;s stacked and indented so that there is no <i>search result sandwich<\/i>.  Is this a flaw in Google&#8217;s custom search?  Or was it designed to do this?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/images\/search_result_sandwhich_logged_out.jpg\"title=\"Not a search result sandwich\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when people google something and visit my website because of the search result, I try the search again to see if my website&#8217;s placement has changed. I also like to see what other websites are nearby and possible related content. Last month Google added a new feature that allows users to customize their search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358,268],"tags":[1833,1834,7152,1831,1830,1832],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","category-google","tag-custom","tag-customization","tag-google","tag-sandwich","tag-search-result","tag-search-result-sandwich"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":122,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1660,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}