Archive for October, 2009

It was during the summer that Google launched a project known as Google Squared. It is an attempt to extract the most relevant information from messy search results and place them into nice neat tables. When using Squared you will be given a square with the most relevant facts about your query within it, rather than seeing a list of relevant websites.

Friday Google has announced that they have improved upon Google Squared, and outlined some of the new features they have added. When using the current version of Google Squared you can view up to four times as much data as the previous version. The search results have improved as well, in terms of relevance and quality. Squared can actually learn from your edits and tweaks so your results will be more accurate as to what you are searching for. You can also rank your results, and export them into Google Spreadsheet.

Google Squared is not quite ready for the public yet and it will be spending a good stint in the labs for awhile. Google’s focus on search and improving upon it is said to be motivated by Bing and the popularity it has garnered. Although Bing’s stats have dipped of late, it is projected to acquire 25 percent of the search market, which is an excellent start for the fledgling search engine.

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