Breaking News - Google’s search engine goes universal
In its latest technological leap, Google will begin showing videos on its main results page along with photos, books and other content previously separated into different categories. Let me break it down for you… Google is basically combining all their search records (Search, News, Video and Images) on to one page. Which means they are saying they figured out how to identify the type of search-query entered and provide a single set of results that it is confident will include all the information you could possibly want.
The problem with that is now we (SEO Community) have to compete with all 5 results shoved onto one page that only has 10 spots! We will be forced to either stick with web search (4 or 5 spots) or figure out how to optimize content such as photos, videos and news items.
The other big news within the story is Google plans on showing Video ads on it result page!