Google Features Video Game Search Engine

I got a little surprise last night: A Google search for “dreamcast” featured a number of links to more specific video game topics, the type you’d see in a Google Co-Op search engine. Apparently, Google is letting the GameSpy, GameStats, GamePro, GamerHelp, AskMen, Games.net, IGN, CheatCodesGuides, and TeamXbox websites create a collaborative Co-Op search engine, and showing refinements for it on many video game searches.
These refinements show up on searches for “xbox”, “playstation”, “wii”, “super nintendo, “dreamcast”, “sega genesis”, “nintendo entertainment system”, “gameboy”, “nintendo ds”, “psp”, “gamecube”, “halo”, “gears of war”, “grand theft auto”, “metal gear”, “mario bros”, “final fantasy”, “god of war”, and tons of other video game related searches.
What Google has done is give a bunch of video game websites access to mess with its search results, presumably for free. Luckily, the engine thus far seems to be fair and balanced, not promoting any of its […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg