Yakiji (Yah-key-jee)

Google launched a new microsite today called “Google Internet Stats” in their UK division. It provides bite-sized stats organized into 5 different categories – Macro Economic Trends, Technology, Consumer Trends, Media Consumption, and Media Landscape. The stats come from well known sources ranging from BusinessWeek to Nielson to YouTube. While these sources have clearly earned their stature in providing these facts and stats, Google has opened up the opportunity for users to submit relevant facts and stats as well. This looks like it could be a neat initiative and I took it for a spin.

Read the rest of this entry »

In Google’s efforts to continually improve search results, Google Experimental Search launched three new views to it’s experiments program.

• Map View (Example) – recognizes the user’s need to map the results of their search query and provides a map courtesy of Google Maps.
• Timeline View (Example) – pretty self explanatory, this feature provides a timeline relating to the user’s search query.
• Info View (Example) – with this view the user is provided a control panel to further refine their search through images, dates, or other relevant attributes.

Useful Links:

• Introducing new search views (Official Google Blog)