Major Google Changes
Google News May 23rd. 2007, 2:11amGoogle updated their search engine today.
They key points:
- Google introduce Universal Search, integrating news, images, videos, books and local results into the main results: “Google’s vision for universal search is to ultimately search across all its content sources, compare and rank all the information in real time, and deliver a single, integrated set of search results that offers users precisely what they are looking for�.
- Google introduce a context-sensitive navigation menu - dynamically generated navigation links have been added above the search results to suggest additional information that is relevant to a user’s query.
- Google launch Google Experimental,which allows users to try out new search features.
Further select reading and reviews:
- Google’s Official Press Release
- Danny Sullivan’s excellent write-up, including the consequences for SEMs
- Techcrunch
- Videocast (�featuring� some very tedious user stories spouting undying Google love - I switched off. Also note the Microsoft-y colors used beneath the Searchology logo….)
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