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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.

  2. 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".