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Searching for Googlebooks won’t give you the results you’re looking for

Google is facing some funny SEO irony for ‘Googlebooks’ queries.

Searching for Googlebooks won’t give you the results you’re looking for

The term "Googlebooks" is facing some confusion in the tech world. This new category of laptops, Googlebooks, shares a strikingly similar name to the company's extensive index of actual books. Consequently, when users search for these laptops on Google, the top results are for the company's digital collection of books and magazines, not the actual Googlebooks laptops.

This predicament highlights a significant SEO challenge for Google. Despite the laptops going on pre-sale on Monday, they're already sold out on Google's US store. The search engine giant now faces the issue of users being led to the wrong destination when seeking information about these innovative notebooks.

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