Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Google Squared Goes Live Today!

Many times we need to find something by searching the web, and after we find it, we want to compare it to other things that are available.
Google Squared vision is to do it automatically for us and arrange everything in a very intuitive way - spreadsheets.
The Beta was released today and obviously, it is not perfect yet. Together with that, the service can already be very helpful for easily comparing restaurants, stores, movies, gadgets, and more.

A usage for example: as a product manager at modu, I was occasionally building comparison tables for available handsets. The new Google Squared Search engine could have helped me save a lot of time by automating at least some of my work...

Take a look at this search: "mobile phones":

http://www.google.com/squared/table/agyoK6a0nieaiqftw1n6y78w

I was also searching for fashion stores and restaurants in different areas of Chicago - Take a look -


http://www.google.com/squared/table/agLoMdyLZKdsfWp0G9KL4pqg


http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=restaurants+chicago+"gold+coast"

This technology is by no means perfect. It is only the beginning... But it is SO Intuitive, SO Clever, and already VERY Helpful.
I recommend to check it out - http://www.google.com/squared

2 comments:

  1. Hi Hagit, this is very interesting, can you explain further on how it works and what's the difference if i look for mobile phones here or on a regular google search?

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  2. Hey, I'm glad that you find it interesting. Try to read more about it here - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/square-your-search-results-with-google.html

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