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Is it Hip to Be Google Squared?
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... Over at the Official Google Blog, we get the cute story about being able to compare roller coasters–and I know my wife will love the data for ...
Google Squared: The perfect search tool if you like inaccurate spreadsheets
VentureBeat —
Google just released a new search tool to the public called Google Squared, which pulls information about a specific topic from around the web into a spreadsheet. First announced at Google’s Searchology event in May, Squared could be useful for different kinds of research — if you want to buy a new dog, it can help you compare breeds, or if you’re writing a school paper about the solar system, Squared can create a chart of all the planets and their attributes. Currently, Squared is a ...
Google Goes Square; Search Results in a Spreadsheet Form
UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping —
... (their decision engine) and now Google has announced a new feature from the Google Labs which builds search results into a table like in a spreadsheet. If you wanted to search for something simple, say the capital of Argentina. Type that phrase into Google and you get your answer and links to pages like Wikipedia telling you more about Buenos Aires and Argentina. But what if you wanted a list of all the capital cities in Europe. You might know several of them, but to get a full list you would need to enter 20 or more queries asking the capital of each country. This is where ...
Google Squared: Interesting, but room for exponential improvement
GMSV —
... , never a good sign in a search tool. Still, as I say, it’s worth taking some time to toy with if you leave expectations aside and look at possibilities instead. Google Squared, introduced Wednesday , is a Google Labs tool that responds to a search query by guessing at some common data points among the results and presenting them for comparison in a sort of spreadsheet. Search, for example, for ...
Google Squared ‘facts search and collection tool’
D' Technology Weblog —
... as a list of other possible values that you can investigate. So even if your square isn't perfect at the beginning, it's easy to work with Google Squared to get a better answer in no time. Once you've got a square you're happy with, you can save it and come back to it later. If you search for [roller coasters], Google Squared builds a square with rows for each of several specific roller coasters and columns for corresponding facts, such as image, height and maximum speed, explains Google blog. ...
Linkpost | 6.4.2009
TechBlog —
... - If users Digg an ad up, advertisers won't have to pay as much. Will this improve the quality of Web ads? • Square your search results with Google Squared and ...
Want a More Organized Search Results? Google Square It
Search Engine Journal —
... I’m not going to assume that Google’s sudden announcement of Google Square has anything to do with Microsoft Bing. Nevermind if Google intentionally or unintentionally announced Google Wave a few moments ahead of Microsoft’s announcement of Bing’s launch. I still don’t want to think that Google Squared was launched to overshadow again Bing online availability.Anyway, according to Google, Google Squared is an experimental search tool that collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection similar to a spreadsheet. ...
Google releases Squared into Labs
Techradar - All the latest technology news —
... we designed Google Squared to be conversational, enabling you to respond to the initial result and get a better answer," said Google on its official blog. "If there's another row or column you'd like to see, you can add it and Google Squared will automatically attempt to fetch and fill in the relevant facts for you. As you remove rows and columns you don't like, Google Squared will get a fresh idea of what you're interested in and suggest new rows and columns to add." Via Official Google Blog ...
Google Squared Launched in Labs
AppScout —
... "If you search for [roller coasters], Google Squared builds a square with rows for each of several specific roller coasters and columns for corresponding facts, such as image, height and maximum speed," Alex Komoroske, associate product manager for Google Squared, wrote in a blog post. ...
Google Squared Declares Current Russian President Medvedev Dead
Profy —
... Yet of course it is impossible not to notice the entire buzz around Microsoft’s Bing or Google Squared that is now available to the public as well. And while I did not really intend to go test the new approach Google offers to search, I could not ignore one fact that one Russian online publication discovered about Google Squared: it has just declared the president Medvedev dead. ...
Microsoft Bing Questions Google's Universal Search Theory
TechWeb —
... among other media types, in their search results. There are signs that Google is aware that universal search, at least on the interface level, has shortcomings. At its Searchology event last month, the company introduced Google Search Options, a set of options to alter the presentation of search results and to filter data, and announced Google Squared, a way to display Google search queries into as a set of structured values in a spreadsheet. In a blog post announcing the availability of Google Squared on Thursday, Alex Komoroske, ...
News Flash: Google Squared Is A Work In Progress
TechCrunch —
... to generate structured results, and for the most part I’d consider myself cautiously optimistic. Now, Google has made it clear that Squared is still in pretty early stages. The logo has a nice big “Labs” title slapped on it, complete with green beaker. The blog post introducing the product to the public stated that Squared is experimental and that “this technology is by no means perfect” and is merely a first step. There’s no question that Google doesn’t think this product is ready for prime time. It’s just opening up ...
