New Google search engine announced
Posted by MattE on 17 May 2007 at 12:10 pm | Tagged as: Media
While it has not shown up as live on my look at Google, this is interesting news.
One concern I have is that it will make the simple interface more crowded.
For a while we have been able to search for items other than web pages (i.e images or news searches), so I will be interested to see what the search results pages toss up.
It could also mean a challenge for SEO if there will be competing results.
So it I search for fishing, I could end up with a mix of sites about fishing, fishing photos, and fishing video.
I wait with baited breath to see what it is like…
UPDATE
I was looking via Google.com.au which was still showing the old version. Looking at google.com, I see that the news Images etc links are repeated near the top of the search results - tempting people to click.
At the bottom is also listed a bunch of related searches. So maybe not so cluttered after all….
Google has gone live with a revamped Internet search engine that integrates video, books, maps and news into “universal” results to online queries.
Google spent two years transforming the architecture of its search engine to broaden results to include web pages that one had to previously seek out in separate search categories such as photos and news.
“It’s all the stuff on the web,” said Google’s vice president of search products and user experience Marissa Mayer.
“The assumption is that if it is there and it is findable on the web we should get it.”
The “Universal Search” platform delivers more comprehensive results and raises the profiles of Google features such as online books and video, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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