Timberline Interactive

Google's blog announced two changes to how it returns search results.

First, Google says it will be delivering more and better refinements to the "related searches" that you see suggested at the bottom of many results pages.

Second, when you use a longer search query, like "earth's rotation axis tilt and distance from sun" your results will contain longer descriptive text (the blocks of black text below the blue titles), which Google calls "snippets" and HTMLers think of as "meta description." The reason for the longer text descriptions is that they'll help searchers to see their phrases in context.

Except, that is, for one little problem: It looks like spammers have already created garbage pages that rank well for the query "earth's rotation axis tilt and distance from sun."

And the other example shown on Google's blog, a search for "spice market review shrimp starter dessert" is no longer such a great test case. All the results are now blog posts and other pages talking about -- you guessed it -- Google's algorithm change.