Google Caffeine – A UK search engine comparison tool

Ever since the news broke about Google Caffeine, their new and ‘improved’ search engine last week, I’ve been testing results of my client sites using the UK version of the sandbox.

Whenever Google do a little ‘Dance’ it’s always been a sweaty palms time for most SEO’s, but this time big ’G' has decided to let us all test things out and give feedback before all goes live over the next few months.

I can now breathe again as the majority of rankings have stayed pretty much the same, bar a few tweeks here and there.

The reason for the post was to let other UK citizens check out their rankings with this nifty little comparison tool which needs no technical knowledge at all.

The nice guys at Lil’engine have made a simple Google comparison tool available for you to see your new results against current listings in Google. Here’s how to make it work for you:

Goto: http://www.goobinghoo.com/

Choose your keyword
Check the Google Caffein checkbox
Uncheck Bing and Yahoo
Choose your country
Choose Horizontal Results
Click Search

Your UK results should look like this:

As you can see I searched on the term SEO and the results are completely different for the first page of Google, there’s going to be a few really panicked UK SEO companies out there at this stage, frantically trying to reverse engineer what’s about to happen.

The other things to notice are the number and speed of the results returned. As you can see with Google as is there are 196,000,000 results for the term SEO but in the new Caffeine version this jumps to 247,000,000.

This tells me it’s going to be even more important in the future to have an SEO specialist on hand to help you maintain positions as the competition has grown massively with the number of indexed pages.

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