First up, thanks to Alexis Kennedy for putting me on to this! Further to my last post, Search may be about to change - Wolfram|Alpha Alexis has put me onto a new Google Labs tool which will be released by the end of the month, Google Squared. Google announced the launch at Searchology earlier this week, see videos below.
You can already see some of this, if you do a Google search you will see the below option to Show Options (left) which will show you a taxonomy to filter the search further (right). This is all part of Google’s drive to make search more sophisticated, check out the offical line http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-search-options-and-other-updates.html.
This is a little bit like Cuil:
Timeline and Wonder Wheel are the best bits I have seen on the Google front, well worth a quick look on Friday afternoon:
But been Google, it will go a lot further to allow you to see the results like a spreadsheet where you can search, filter, drop, add, append more results, drill in and across to get the results you are interested in. It will be very interesting to see how this takes off and how powerful it is to allow users to search the unstructured data on the net. The biggest difference this has over Wolfram|Alpha is that Alpha is sanitised by super brains where as Google Squared will act on the entire web.
Thanks for reading,
John