Google Squared is Live

Re:Google Squared is Live by mtpark on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @04:59PM (#640394)

I didn't either. Maybe I still don't.

I think it takes a search and is smart enough to give you comparisons between results. Look at their examples to get a feel for how it works.

I could be wrong, someone let me know if I'm completely off base.

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Re:Google Squared is Live by sgk284 on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @05:19PM (#640442)

Using heuristics, it attempts to form structure from unstructured data. It's a pretty good first attempt.

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Re:Google Squared is Live by timcederman on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @05:07PM (#640415)

I did check out the example searches. First one I clicked on - Hawaiian islands. http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=Hawaiian%20islands...

What does "color" refer to here? The island's flower? What colour is melemele?

I should point out, I get what it does technically, but I'm just struggling to think of a repeatable user scenario where this would be useful...

I also noticed a couple of weird things:

1) They're not URL encoding their example searches. Tsk.

2) Searching for "google squared" on regular Google brings up Techcrunch, and the Google Squared site is halfway down the list.

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Re:Google Squared is Live by mtpark on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @05:13PM (#640433)

Try example searches for "roller coaster" and "US presidents" . I think those are better examples to try and get a feel for what's going on.

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