Wednesday 13 May 2009

Google Search Options

"Google are upping the stakes in search with a roll out of new ways to slice and dice your search results. The most interesting and useful for me, as a journalist, is the ability to limit the search to the last 24 hours. I can imagine using this frequently. See Google's blog post here.

"We were told that the hardest problems in search were:

- Finding the most recent information
- Expressing that you want just one type of result
- Assessing which results are best
- Knowing what you’re looking for
- Expressing your searches in keywords

"By allowing you to search the last 24 hours only, Google is getting to real-time search but is not there yet. The only place at the moment where this is a reality is Twitter. Its search function allows you to find out what people are saying now about the latest film release, earthquake, whatever. This real-time discovery can be incredibly useful."

Source: "Google searches fo the perfect answer" Mike Harvey, Tech Central, TimesOnline

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