Google Kills SearchWiki, Replaces It With Starred Results
Mar 3, 2010 at 8:02pm ET by Matt McGee
Google's SearchWiki, which launched 16 months ago to a mix of fanfare and controversy, is a thing of the past. The ability to re-order, remove, and comment on search results has been replaced by a scaled-down version that Google is simply calling "stars" or "starred results."
According to today's announcement, the Stars feature will allow users to bookmark preferred pages so that those pages will show up when similar searches are done in the future. Google's example is a search for "nfl":
Starred results will appear above and separate from Google's algorithmic results; using this fea [...]
Filed in: Google: Search Customization, Google: SearchWiki, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search, Top News
Google Adds “Nearby” Local Search To Options Panel
Feb 26, 2010 at 12:44pm ET by Matt McGee
Google has expanded the choices in its Search Options panel with today's announcement of a tool to refine searches by location.
After doing a search and opening the "Show Options" panel, you'll see a new link labeled "nearby."
Clicking that link leads to a few refinement options: You can use the default location Google has for you, or type in a custom location for your search. The other option is to select between City, Region, or State-level searches, as shown below.
In these images, I've already done a local search on the term "seattle restaurants." This new search refinemen [...]
Filed in: Google: Maps & Local, Google: Search Customization, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search, Top News
Google Adds “Page Preview” To Search Options
Nov 3, 2009 at 9:51am ET by Barry Schwartz
Google Operating System noticed Google has added a new search option named "page preview." If you go to Google, search on something and click on "show options," you can then look towards the button on the left hand side and click on "page previews." For example, here is a view of a search for apple with page preview selected.
As you can see, Google adds thumbnails of the page directly on the search results.
Page previews is nothing new to search, Ask.com did it with binoculars and there are many Firefox add-ons that add page previews to the Google search results. [...]
Filed in: Google: Search Customization, Google: User Interface, Google: Web Search, Top News
Google Caffeine: Google’s New Search Engine Index
Aug 10, 2009 at 7:56pm ET by Vanessa Fox
Google has just unveiled a "secret project" of "next-generation architecture for Google's web search". This new architecture appears to include crawling, indexing, and ranking changes. For the first time, Google isn't simply incorporating these changes into their existing infrastructure or replacing it. Instead, they're providing a developer preview and are asking webmasters and power searchers to try it out and give them feedback. Unlike Google's now-defunct SearchMash, which was intended for search experiments that wouldn't necessarily be incorporated into Google's main web search, the caffe [...]
Filed in: Google: SEO, Google: Search Customization, Top News
Google’s Search Suggestions Change On Second Search
Aug 10, 2009 at 9:29am ET by Barry Schwartz
I am not sure if this is new, but when you look at the first search suggestions given to you by Google and then look at the second set of search suggestions, Google will change them, assuming you were not happy with the first set of results. Google Operating System just pointed this out and I have never seen it mentioned prior (doesn't mean it hasn't been mentioned prior).
Here is an example of this in action:
(1) Search suggestions by Google for the word [search]:
(2) Then I land on the search results page and try it again, and notice that the suggestions are different:
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Filed in: Google: Search Customization, Google: Web History & Search History, Google: Web Search
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