Google Seeking "Search Without Search"

An anonymous reader writes "Forget Google Instant, the search giant is working on ways to push relevant info to users before they have even asked for it... Foursquare-style location 'check-ins' are also apparently on the way next year."

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42

[kthreadd]

Just put it on the front page and be done with it.

Re:42

[IAmGarethAdams]

Oh yeah and as a bonus if you don't run Google's JS you get the actual URLs of the search results and not some redirection server that helps to track you.

Yeah, I really hate it when a company looking to improve search results tries to find out which search results the user ends up choosing!

Anything Is Possible

[eldavojohn]

Hello, gentlemen, look at your browser, now back to me, now back at your browser, now back to me. Sadly, it doesn't have the information you want, but if you stopped using some other search engine and switched to Google, you could have already had your information. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re on a flying car with the search engine your browser could use. What’s on your screen, back at me. I have it, it’s the search results to some query you have yet to even conceive. Look again, the search results are now pornography. Anything is possible when you use Google. I’m on a server.

I remember

[MyLongNickName]

When Altavista and other search engines (many names I cannot remember) were pushing crap on our search screens. You had a hell of a time finding anything between the paid ads (that were not marked as such) and the sites that gamed the search engine.

Google came along with the smallest footprint and the best algorithm. Fast forward 15 years and Google is more about the cute google art, gawdy gadgets and tracking your every move. And over the past couple years, I find more gamed sites making it into my search results. It has been slow, but Google is turning into the companies they replaced.

Re:I remember

[Amorymeltzer]

It's the natural order of things, whether for a company or for people. They want to waltz in, change everything radically, then settle down and grow old with their affluence. "If you want to know what is going to happen to the youngest generation, they're going to grow up and worry about the youngest generation."

Re:Psychic Pizza

[Pojut]

Psyhic Pizza will also know when to include garlic breadsticks. You know, for those times when you're REALLY high.

"Dude. The garlic is talkin' to me."
"Doesn't it always?"

MS will complain

[gmuslera]

when this feature gets called Google Clippy.

Trace Routes in the Sand

[eldavojohn]

That was weird. When I looked at you, all I saw was my browser. When I looked back to my browser, there you were.

One night I dreamed I was surfing the internet with Google. Many scenes from my life flashed across the screen.

In each scene I noticed trace routes in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of trace routes, other times there was one only.

This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, when I was suffering from lagging, disconnection or defeat, I could see only one set of trace routes, so I said to Google,

"You promised me Google,
that if I followed you, you would search with me always. But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life there has only been one set of trace routes in the sand. Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?"

Google replied, "The years when you have seen only one set of trace routes, my child, is when I searched for you."

Here's a feature i want: FIND

[Junior J. Junior III]

Seriously, Google, have you looked at your search results lately? It's getting so I can't find anything relevant amongst all the garbage. Maybe this is because the internet is turning into a morass of crap, but I don't think it is. I think it's because SEO have figured out how to game your results, and all I can find with simple keyword or phrases is useless. Do a better job of filtering out crap so I can actually find something useful.