[WikiEN-l] Google's new search options

Nathan nawrich at gmail.com
Wed May 13 21:32:26 UTC 2009


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8047076.stm

Options include "Google Squared" which mines for identifiable and related
facts and presents them in a spreadsheet, Rich Snippets which gives useful
previews of results and Skymap - which (as a cell phone app) uses GPS to see
where you are and where you are pointing to identify stars and
constellations. Neat stuff. Wish we could integrate this sort of thing into
Wikipedia, half of it probably uses data mined from the projects anyway.

Nathan


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