Future is customized searches

try doing honda baltimore on google, see what you get. Do you get prices? mileage of the car, does it tell you what the condition is? Does it give you anything useful? All it does is that it gives you a link and you will have to click on it to see what's inside....

All this will change...people want more from search engines now. Just keep yourself prepared for it.

Hi jkiley,

I tend to disagree with you on a few points. You might be interested in mileage and prices, while I'm interested in locations, phone numbers and maps to nearby dealerships. Right now Google does an excellent job if you make the effort to be explicit about what you are looking for. Most people have already figured this out and more are learning each day.

I also disagree that Google just gives you links, They give you the page title and description of what you will find on that page. Not all webmasters take full advantage of it, but it certainly is more than just a link. In addition, if you are shopping, Google also provides highly relevant ads on the result pages that often include that exact details you are looking for, provided you adequately express yourself.

You can't expect highly relevant information if you enter an ambiguous search term, you will always be limited by your inability to communicate effectively. In addition, the search engine cannot index information that does not exist on the web page. It's up to the website owner to provide what you see in the index. If the search engines started creating stuff out of thin air you wouldn't be able to trust it.

Besides, there are already sites that provide the information formated the way you suggest search engines will become, they are called directories and they have been around much longer than Google. It's not a new idea and many sites have already done a great job of it, they're are not likely to ever be as ubiquitous as a search engine like Google.