Google apparently does a lot more fancy stuff behind the scenes of just matching your keywords than you would imagine. Some of this we can already see when it tries to give you suggestions when you type an error. A good article and video can be found here:
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/12/05/google-shares-search-predictions
Now that Microsoft bought Wolfram Alpha you can bet that Google is trying to do a similar thing. Google calls this web application “Google Squared” and the beta version can be found here:
http://www.google.com/squared
If you search for instance for ‘planets’ the result is a nice grid with some usefull (or maybe not) facts about planets. It also includes some stars though. It looks like Wolfram Alpha returns the better quality results, but Google Squared is only Beta (even though Wolfram Alpha has Alpha in the name, it’s not), so we can expect more in the future. The nice thing is you can easily add and remove rows and columns and it will keep looking for the best matching data. And it’s integrated in the Google Document world, making it easy to save, share and export.
I like it. But try it out for yourself.
Google apparently does a lot more fancy stuff behind the scenes of just matching your keywords than you would imagine. Some of this we can already see when it tries to give you suggestions when you type an error. A good article and video can be found here:
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/12/05/google-shares-search-predictions
Now that Microsoft bought Wolfram Alpha you can bet that Google is trying to do a similar thing. Google calls this web application “Google Squared” and the beta version can be found here:
http://www.google.com/squared
Wolfram Alpha can be found here:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
If you search for instance for ‘planets’ the result is a nice grid with some usefull (or maybe not) facts about planets. It also includes some stars though. See image.
Google Squared
It looks like Wolfram Alpha returns the better quality results, but Google Squared is only Beta (even though Wolfram Alpha has Alpha in the name, it’s not), so we can expect more in the future. The nice thing is you can easily add and remove rows and columns and it will keep looking for the best matching data. And it’s integrated in the Google Document world, making it easy to save, share and export.
Wolfram Alpha
I like both. But try it out for yourself.
