Mar 4, 2009 at 11:42am ET by Barry Schwartz
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:
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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