In an attempt to give the info-seeking public more information with internet speed, Google has come up with some new enhancements to its Web search engine. The New York Times tech blog explains that one an experimental feature called Google Squared extracts information from the Web and displays it in a table, so that each column offers a different way of interpreting your request. For example, if you type “science fiction television shows,” it may return a table with their release dates, lead actors, directors and the networks that broadcast them. And it can be saved and shared as a spreadsheet!
Google Squared will be released in the next month in the “Labs” area of the Google site, which is reserved for experimental products. As an experimental product, Google Squared is not likely to be used by many people, at least initially, but you can be among the few and the proud who decide if it’s useful or not.
On Tuesday, Google also unveiled features that are less experimental and more mainstream, including one called Search Options that allows users to repeatedly refine search results, by clicking a new “show options” link, then sorting the search results by category of content (videos, discussion forums, reviews), by time (recent results, past 24 hours, past week, past year) or a combination of these and other characteristics. As the user clicks on each refinement, the search results update automatically.
Also on Tuesday, Google began showing enhanced versions of snippets — the short segments of text that appear just below search links to include more details. Yahoo already offers a similar feature. In a world that seeks more info at faster speeds all the time, Google aims to stay ahead of the rest.
Tags: Faster Speeds, Internet Speed
[...] Though Google is the clear dominating force in searches with 64% of the market versus Yahoo’s 20%, even Google recently made some improvements. [...]