Yakiji (Yah-key-jee) » Google http://www.yakiji.com Design, Development, Marketing...All Things Web Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:54:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Google Gives Us Some Interesting Stats http://www.yakiji.com/google/some-interesting-stats/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=some-interesting-stats http://www.yakiji.com/google/some-interesting-stats/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:00:51 +0000 Jonny Thompson http://www.yakiji.com/?p=143 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.

Pros:

  • Clean, bite-sized stats and facts.
  • Organized nicely by categories.
  • A lot of potential for growth.

Cons:

  • User interface is a little constrictive.
  • Focused on collecting Internet stats for the UK. What about the US?
  • Needs to be populated with more facts and stats.

Overall, this is an interesting step for Google to take and it still has a “beta” feel to it, which could potentially mean that it’s a precursor for something bigger yet to come.

]]> http://www.yakiji.com/google/some-interesting-stats/feed/ 0 Google Adds New Views to Search Results http://www.yakiji.com/google/google-adds-new-views-to-search-results/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-adds-new-views-to-search-results http://www.yakiji.com/google/google-adds-new-views-to-search-results/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:07:57 +0000 Jonny Thompson http://www.yakiji.com/google/google-adds-new-views-to-search-results/ Google ExperimentsIn 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.

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