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Google Trials A9 Style Image Search
Grugnog writes "Google has started including images from it's image search on the main search page. This is similar to Amazon's A9 search engine. With Google kicking off Google Print (A9's other specialty) could A9 become redundant?"
Grugnog.com is some guy's page, and submitting anything in that search box just gives a 404. Is this the musing of a guy who posts stuff to slashdot that he doesn't even mention in his blog (on the root of the domain)?
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me neither. I, and certainly keeleysam, feel duped and disappointed.
The posted link is not Google though it seems genuine; its much larger home page is, in fact, a blog.
Makes me glad to have a status bar on my browser.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
the link in the story showed a image of a googe suggest search.
Nothing for you to see here, Please move along.
From the earlier /. story titled "Google Tidbits" which mentioned this blog entry about "an evening with Google's Marissa Mayer", we find that:
Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example.
So, it is possible that only people in this guy's subnet are seeing these pictures of "Traktor"...
Or maybe, just maybe, it's REAL and he's mirroring the results page, because Google doesn't always unveil new features like this to everyone all at once. Oftentimes new features are released only to certain subnets before they are put into wide release.
Calm down, man.
Duped? Not necessarily.
The HTML is from a different source because the guy just mirrored the Google page on his own site.
Why? Because oftentimes Google offers new features only to certain subnets. As that may indeed be the case here, which would explain why some but not all Slashdot users appear able to use this new feature, it only makes sense to offer a mirror or screenshot; otherwise, most people could not see this new feature.
And if the guy was trying to trick people into thinking his page was actually Google, he wouldn't have shuffled things over to Mirrordot.
Have you stopped to think that possibly the reason it wasn't linked to Google is because it doesn't show up for everybody who does a search? As others have already noted, Google phases in new features over a period of time. So the poster took a screenshot and posted those instead, I can't speak for others, but I for one would call that a courteous gesture...
Hello ignorant smartass! traktor is the correct spelling of 'tractor' in many languages in addition to being a brand name of several different products.
There is a Firefox extension that shows preview images (thumbnails) of the sites in the google search results page:
GooglePreview Firefox extension
As mentioned in a previous slashdot story, Google often tries new features on a subset of users. Depending on how they work and feedback from users, they may or may not include them in the standard interface.
For those too lazy to click through to the original article referenced by the above story, the relevant line is:
Google makes changes small-and-often. They will sometimes trial a particular feature with a set of users from a given network subnet; for example Excite@Home users often get to see new features. They aren't told of this, just presented with the new UI and observed how they use it.
You can already get page thumbnails, use the GooglePreview extension for Firefox :)