Searching for Googlebooks won?t give you the results you?re looking for

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TL;DR

• A new category of laptops, called Googlebooks, was recently launched.
• The laptops share a very similar name to the company’s index of actual books.
• When searching for these notebooks on the company’s search engine, the first page of results is for Google Books.

This has been a big week for Google, as pre-orders for Googlebooks opened up on Monday. Googlebooks are a new category of laptops that combine ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop operating system, for those unaware. So far, it seems these notebooks are selling like hotcakes, as the laptops are already out of stock on the company’s US store. If you’re interested in learning more about these computers, don’t bother turning to Search, as you won’t find what you’re looking for.

As it turns out, Googlebooks have somewhat of an SEO problem. Spotted by The Verge, typing Googlebooks into Google Search will instead get you results for the tech giant’s index of actual books. The company’s digital database for full-text books and magazines just happens to share a very similar name with its new laptops, Google Books. An oversight you’d think the Mountain View-based firm would’ve caught.




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