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Google Expands to 'Universal' Search

Posted by samzenpus on from the triple-awesome-metasearch-coming-soon dept.

ppadala writes "Google today unveiled its uber search which allows you to search for text, images, news etc. together. This is the result of unifying various search engines that Google developed for web, images, news etc. Google's main page and the results page are also sporting a polished look with a top menu bar sporting various search items."

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  1. Why not Live or Yahoo stories? by choseph · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is this news -- because it is Google? The whole article is filled with "Google understands blah blah...but all their competitors do too and have been doing the same thing".
    No hot grits, but you can see natalie portman images inlined in the search results in live.com and that has been there for a while now. http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=natalie+port man&form=QBRE

    Directly from the article:
    Google's competitors have also begun integrating results from their engines in various ways and with different approaches, but with the same goal in mind: improve the search experience for users.

    1. Re:Why not Live or Yahoo stories? by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why is this news -- because it is Google?

      You guessed it!

      Just like the Lynx browser coming out in a new release isn't big news, Firefox doing the same is!
      News has a lot to do with impact among people.

      Live Search changing stuff only impacts a very small group of people in the geek community, for example.
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  2. Apple will sue by ghoul · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did nobody else notice the iGoogle link on the top right hand corner? Doesnt Apple have trademarks on anything starting with a small i?

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  3. Where is this new search? by bcmm · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Where is this new search? Usually Google doesn't announce things till they are ready (well, or at least beta ;-). One of the things I've always like about Google is that it seldom builds up some product/vapourware before it's release. Is that policy going to end now?

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    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
  4. Google is microsofting quick by gmart · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I wonder if adding as many services as it has added as quickly as it has added and changing things as quickly as it has added has made a small nimble company bloatware. Moving from a clean interface to a cluttered feature-laden experience that does everything reminds me of a certain word processor tool that can now do calculations and publish to my blog. The next google iteration will have links to creating a blog entry on your search results, wikiing the results in your wiki, emailing the results, saving your search results to your calendar or creating an alert that will inform you if anyone ever submits any new items on the internet in this subject area including anything ever printed. Also a link to create a specialized google adwords entry using these words on your blog. I use google because its clean and simple. Don't change the main business appeal of your product.

  5. Re:Where is the distributed community search? by GeneJoker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Search for: "Business Software Solutions"

    Results:

    www.lolita-ultracore.com reports that it has a 100% relevance score for "Business Software Solutions".

    www.geocities.com/mykawaiiwebcam reports that it has a 100% relevance score for "Business Software Solutions".

    www.we-report-that-we-have-a-100%-relevance-score- for-everything.com reports that it has a 100% relevance score for "Business Software Solutions".