Google Shakes Things Up By Adding Earthquake OneBox

About two years ago, Greg Sterling wrote a piece on Searching for Earthquakes. Since then, I believe Ask.com was the only search engine providing a “smart answer” for earthquake data. Ask.com continues to offer the smart answer, but recently, Google added their own. Google Operating System reports Google has added an Earthquake OneBox result for […]

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About two years ago, Greg Sterling wrote a piece on Searching for Earthquakes. Since then, I believe Ask.com was the only search engine providing a “smart answer” for earthquake data. Ask.com continues to offer the smart answer, but recently, Google added their own.

Google Operating System reports Google has added an Earthquake OneBox result for a search on earthquake. Here is a picture:

Google Earthquake Box

The data Google uses for this OneBox is from U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program.

Postscript: A day or so after, Google posted information about this new OneBox and titled their post Shaking up earthquake searches.


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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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