Transactional Searches

Shopping, travel and local queries often show product grids, flight boxes or maps instead of ten plain links, so the organic listings start lower. The belief that big brands got a blanket boost dates from the 2009 "Vince" change; Matt Cutts described it as a minor change factoring trust, quality and PageRank into generic queries, not a brand push. Brand and navigational queries behave differently: Google's site diversity system "generally won't show more than two web page listings from the same site", but may show more when "especially relevant", which is why a brand search can return a page of results from one domain.