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While searching for local businesses, Google Maps has always been adequate in displaying locations on a map along with the relevant addresses, contact phone numbers, and mailing addresses. But what if we wanted more information?
With the success of universal search (a.k.a. blended or federated search) in normal organic search results, Google Maps will also be [...]

Riddle: Ask.com has well-organized ones, Google has ugly ones, and now Yahoo is implementing them too. What are they?
Answer: Universal search result pages (a.k.a. blended search or federated search).
Universal search pages, or as Yahoo calls them, "Glue Pages," have been showing up on Yahoo India late last week. While still in beta, Yahoo’s Glue Pages [...]

With last year’s introduction of universal (blended) search results followed by the $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube, we knew that video ads were next to appear on Google search result pages. Google has begun testing last Thursday according to a NYT article.
It looks as though these ads will operate on a cost-per-click basis and be [...]

For the most part, Google has always been fairly keen on new innovations and staying ahead of the pack. However, their design and layout of universal search (a.k.a. blended search) result pages leaves much to be desired.
Simply put, there is a lack of organization in the universal search results - let alone any logical or [...]