Lots of Product Announcements At Google Today

Yep a lot of stuff happened, I missed some of the stuff at the end though.

The keyboard navigation in experimentals and the timeline are really helpful improvements.

It’ll be interesting to see what lasts after it’s tried live. Other than universal search I don’t know that there’s anything that really stands out too much though.

uh, does this merit a play by play? this company is NOT apple…big deal, they added a new button…seriously, spare the toilet-paper-on-shoe dialogue and just give us all the roundup, there are few points awarded for blogging one random item five minutes before the next dude..

I sort of disagree Dave…this is kind of important seeing as Google is more relevant to most people than Apple, both directly and indirectly.

Google Experimental is an interesting addition- Google seems to have tiered betas- SearchMash, Google Experimental, and then segmented rollout on the actual site…

cross-language search engine sounds pretty big. i can’t wait to see what else they have been working on!

Michael, Thanks a lot for putting the link to the searchology broadcast in your previous posts.

-Mike

please be the last google post for a while.

I get so tired of all the Google hype. It seems as if 3-4 times a week i’ts Google, MySpace, Boobtube, and now; I see eBay is getting coverage. Riediculous ! Oh well, TC has to cater to the large bank books.

Dominic

Dominic - To say - TC caters to bank book - in a sense - indicates you believe TC is taking money ..

- do you see the 50 ads to the right? - dont you think those pay the bills (easily?)

-Later,RB

Very cool new ideas from the Google camp.

Anyone else see a subtly redesigned Google search results page, or is it some weird setting I have? White gradients?…

interesting that the thrust of the changes are external to the core relevance matching. i would concur that the core matching relevance of google is good enough and they are right to focus on enhancements like these. i really wonder what the net gain is for players like powerset who are still focused on the core matching technologies

All incrementals.

What’s funny about Google is how as time goes on my search queries have to become more and more refined in order for me to get relevant data. Whereas before something vague still leads to what I’m looking within the top 10 results I’m now using “”, (), -, binaries, and everything else.

Any keywords related to a product results to spam. Keywords now bring up random porn sites, and what’s even more spectacular is how people are able to game the system by integrating my search queries into their spam pages.

Is there anything better?

Hey mike second life is going to want their money back after seeing that their ad is linked to page flakes! instead of well …Second Life

My website deserves at least a mention for that…. http://www.dobizo.com

Major snore. Only thing that’s interesting to me is the universal Google bar, which isn’t even an amazing piece of technology - it probably took an intern about 15 minutes to add in. But as I use many Google services, it’s a much welcome addition.

Hopefully they will allow us to customize that navigational panel eventually, much like iGoogle.

“The ultimate goal of universal search is to break down the silos of information that exist on the web and provide the very best answer every time a user enters a query. While we still have a long way to go, today’s announcements are a big step in that direction.”

http://news.taume.com/Technolo.....esign-1276

um… why do we need keyboard short cuts for our search? Are they seeing a drop in mouse usage or seeing the mouse being phased out. There is some cool stuff. But I don’t get the shortcuts they are really stupid.

Very Googlicious! I am loving all these new Google cookies you guys baked.

Alaska Miller,

Using BINARIES? How’d that go, please tell! :O

Way to go… Google. Yeah!!!

Yeah, there were really lots. My netvibes’ google feed was all filled up. Hope all of them goes successfully.

Some great things out of Google.

Glad to here that they have resumed their development. JJ

Cheers

Thanks a lot for putting the link to the searchology broadcast in your previous posts:)
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Timeline search and ability to toggle between timeline, list & mapping was cool although timeline was a bit hit and miss obviously - timelined ‘michael arrington’ but not ‘techcrunch’ …..early days. Wonder if Google are looking at ways of synching and displaying relevant multimedia results with timeline - a dedicated timeline tag ?

I know this is an “old” post (yesterday)…but I wanted to say that I think Google just screwed up their search results.

We have the #1 return for ‘xxx xxx xxx’ (google was right, we are the most relevant site on the web for this search - and that is a fact, not an opinion) and they just bumped us down (still #1 in the serps) with a very, very irrelevant map and some horrible business results on the map. I am sure we will lose 500-1k visitors per day on this phrase alone (same thing is happening on several popular search phrases).

I hope Google will scrap this and go back to returning the most relevant results. Bad move IMHO

A9 already has some of these features, I had expected even more innovations from Google.