What’s New With Direct Answers In Search

March 3, 2015

What’s New With

Direct Answers in Search

Eric EngeCEO & Founder, Stone Temple

@StoneTemple

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Who Am I?

Columnist & Contributor

CEO & Founder

40+ person Digital Marketing and SEO firm

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We Conducted a Massive Study

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Query Sources

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Includes a Title

43,324 (25%)

examples

found

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Movie Result –Shows Tabs

1 of 2 types of

tab results

found

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Menu Result – Shows Tabs

2 of 2 types of

tab results

found

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Question Only Partially Answered

3,117 examples

found

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Includes a Table

1,285 examples

found

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Has Sliders

6,740 examples

found

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Complete List Result With Link to Source

1,871 examples

found

All List Results

include a link

to the source

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Complete List, Partial Items, Link to Source

1,366 (82.1%)

examples

found

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Partial List -shows “more items”

799 (48%)

examples

found

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Rich Answer Box Plus a Sidebar

45,132

examples

found

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Has a Form

5,356 examples

found

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Includes A Chart

33 examples

found

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Result is a Carousel

4,824 examples

found

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Includes Link to Follow On Actions

172 examples

found

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Image as Part of the Result

36,392

examples

found

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Shows Related Items

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Is Google Providing Proper Attribution?

74.7% Do

Include

Attribution

25.3% Do Not

Include

Attribution

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Were the Answers Without Attribution Public Domain Info?

Lyrics Were the

Only Exception

We Found

We Reviewed

42,160 Items

with No

Attribution

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The Story With Lyrics

Lyrics are subject to copyright law

I reached out to Google for comment, and here is what they said:

"We only show the lyrics for songs for which

we have the appropriate rights”

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IMPACT ON PUBLISHERS

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Don’t Try to Make a Living on Public Domain Info

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Google May Also License Info Too

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Great If Your Site is Selected for a Partial Answer

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Not so Great if You are Not!

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