Special result for linkedin when you search for 'link'

[MTalhaImtiaz]

Hello everyone,

I found this merely by chance. I wanted to open linkedin on chrome and hasty as I am i just typed 'link'. Wanted google to understand and return linkedin as the first result so i could just click on it.

This is what it returned.

Google allows you to search directly on Linkedin from the results page.

Its quite fascinating for me. I hope my knowledge isn't too outdated.

R0mp9aO

[CommT]

It probably can be explained, but sadly not by me!

[MTalhaImtiaz]

Hello Amelia,

Thanks for your response.

You may be right about the point that google might have rolled it out in this region now... but i would doubt it would take a year for the updates to show effect across the world. I deem it would be faster.

I did know it happened for wikipedia... but i only knew it in theory. Actually this is the first time i saw it and the interesting thing is that if you searched for 'linkedin' the results are normal. But a search for 'link' shows this embedded search feature.

Can this be explained?

[CommT]

They used to let you do the same with wikipedia, seems to not be there today when I search though. Other sites that have this are Amazon and The BBC. I haven't checked for any more though!

I assume it's only high traffic sites that get this.  I wonder what the threshold is?

Like you say: fascinating!

BTW, I noticed this ages ago, but that doesn't mean you're knowledge is outdated, it's probably one of those things Google has rolled out at different times in different countries. I can't actually remember the first time I saw it, but it was probably at least a year ago. I'm in the UK.

Best wishes,

Amelia