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Google Squared | 05/13/2009 6:40 am

Marissa Mayer: Google Squared 'Pushes Search in an Entirely Different Direction' (Video)

Google Squared is a search engine that will present information in a table that looks like a spreadsheet.
By The Staff at wowOwow.com

On Tuesday, Google announced a series of new search products to keep their competitive edge in the innovative world of technology.

The new offerings include Google Search Options, Rich Snippets and an astrology-related Android app, says PCMag.com, but the one garnering the most attention seems to be Google Squared.

Google Squared takes searching the Internet to a whole new level. The advanced service compiles information from several Web pages and organizes them into a table like a spreadsheet. It’s a departure from what Google Search is today, which presents pages and pages of links to original sources.

"It really pushes search in an entirely different direction," Marissa Mayer, vice president of search and user experience at Google, said during a presentation at Google’s Mountain View headquarters.

Squared will be available by the end of the month in Google Labs. In the YouTube video below that was posted on TechCrunch.com, a person demonstrates how Google Squared will work. A search for "roller coasters" sorts results by name, image, description, height, length and number of inversions. But sometimes the search engine gets confused. A search for "spaceships" turns up a Corvette and a missile carrier. Kinks such as these are still being worked out and may be fixed before it becomes public.


Click here to read more at PCMag.com and TechCrunch.com.

3 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Judy K.
The concept sounds like a great idea.  But a confused Google might lead to some interesting searches.  Just how liable will they be if some kid gets more than he/she bargained for?
By Judy K. on 05/13/2009 7:59 am
nanchan u
Oh please Google!  Don’t ship this out without fixing the bugs….. do you really want to go to The Dark Side?
By nanchan u on 05/13/2009 8:22 am
Andrea Brandon
Finally!!!
By Andrea Brandon on 05/18/2009 11:37 pm