Google Launches 9 New Ways to Search
Posted on October 1, 2009 by adminNo Comments
Google maintaining to work to address the risk posed by the real-time search potentiality of services like Facebook and Twitter.
In May, they initiated “Search Options” to permit users to process search results by content type and time, but today, they’re launching a “past hour” filter to create its index even fresher.
Along with this key update, Google is rolling out 8 other search options which should be accessible to everyone at a number of points today. Those include the capability to search within a specific date range, shopping site filters, a visited pages filter, and a choice to see only results from Google’s book, blog, and news search tools.
The “past hour” filter is positively the most interesting addition, though. While Google presents other timely ways to get information – Google News and Google Trends being atop that list – the huge majority of users basically turn to its search engine.
By giving users the choice to filter results from the past hour, they’ll see more recent news and information as opposed to the Wikipedia entries and other high ranking content that control the top of many results in standard search. Earlier this week, Google also added “hot trends” to search consequences, a move that might portend Twitter-like trending themes being integrated throughout at several point down the road.
Google is playing catch up here – not in the sense of market share, but in the sense of creating their results as timely as those found on social media websites. To see how they are doing, we’ll must to put the “past hour” filter to the test next time there is a major present event breaking. Stay tuned.
