Re:Google Squared is Live
by dood on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @05:36PM
(#640481)
I like that they show you the source pages, confidence, and alternative sources for the data.
However, it suffers the classic Google app problem; it does interesting stuff, but just looks ugly, and is generally unappealing. Hard for me to explain why, but despite my interest in the technology I just didn't enjoy using it at all.
But it is interesting stuff, I'd been wondering when something like this would emerge since watching this Norving talk from 2007 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8DcBF-qo4].
However, it suffers the classic Google app problem; it does interesting stuff, but just looks ugly, and is generally unappealing. Hard for me to explain why, but despite my interest in the technology I just didn't enjoy using it at all.
But it is interesting stuff, I'd been wondering when something like this would emerge since watching this Norving talk from 2007 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU8DcBF-qo4].