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Google: a breve ci saranno cambiamenti importanti nelle ricerche
Google sta cercando di rendere la ricerca più intuitiva possibile e di fornire risposte più pertinenti alle ricerche. Scopriamo cosa hanno in mente gli ingegneri del colosso americano.
Come afferma il senior vice-president di Google, Amit Singhal, con questo nuovo passaggio si tenterà di andare oltre le semplici parole. Si andrà nel mondo delle entità e si scoprirà il rapporto tra tali entità. Ma, in pratica, cosa vorrà dire per l’utente che andrà a cercare sul motore di ricerca?
Nei prossimi mesi si inizierà a vedere i risultati leggermente diversi per le ricerche. Come ulteriormente illustrato in una vicenda che ha visto coinvolto il Wall Street Journal sul tema, una ricerca per “Lago Tahoe” produrrà “attributi chiave” in modo che Google presenti immediatamente i dettagli circa il lago, compresa la sua altitudine, posizione, salinità e la temperatura media. La query, cioè la domanda posta dall’utente, del tipo “Quali sono i 10 laghi più grandi in California?”, dovrà produrre una risposta diretta, invece dei soliti link a siti pertinenti.
Lo sforzo di Google rappresenta la volontà della società di far evolvere la sua ricerca in qualcosa di simile all’intelligenza artificiale. Non a caso, la società si affrettò nel 2010 ad acquistare Freebase, una comunità che ha permesso al motore di ricerca di riconoscere che le parole che vengono raggruppate insieme hanno diversi significati rispetto alle parole cercate singolarmente. Per esempio, una ricerca Google è in grado di distinguere una ricerca per “New York” in contrapposizione a una per “New” e “York”.
5 Steps to More Accurate and Efficient Google Search
Ever wondered how many websites are there in the world right now? According to Pingdom, it’s a whooping 255 million as of December 2010! A total of 21.4 million websites were created last year alone. Logically speaking, our search for websites should get exponentially tedious and difficult along with the years, especially at a time when access to information is more valuable than ever.
Surprisingly, we are still able to find the information we need most of the time, thanks to the effective and reliable search engine, Google. Nevertheless, with that much wealth of information out there online, it’s easy to lose ourselves and not get the optimal results we could have.
There are fortunately methods of searching to ensure that we are digging in the right holes, and below we will cover 5 essential steps that include tips & tricks to help you refine your search. Learn them all and get what you really want from the Google while not wasting your time flipping the result page!
More: You may also interested in – Gmail Advanced Search – Ultimate Guide
What do you love, asks Google with a new portal to its many web services
Say hello to your new online friend, wdyl.com. An eagle-eyed TechCrunch tipster spotted this freshly launched Google portal, whose purpose it seems to be to gather up all of the company’s multifariousweb services under one umbrella. A Google search for Google products, in other words. Punching in a topic brings up its popularity in Google Trends, lets you set up Google Alerts, plan related events in Google Calendar, email someone in Gmail, or hit up Picasa, YouTube or Google News with the same query. You get the picture. It hasn’t yet been made official and hitting up the site without the “www.” prefix throws up a bad URL error at the moment, but it’s there and seemingly fully functional. Give it a try and let us know which search terms bring up the most humorous results.
WiMAX PlayBook 4G announcement betrayed by Google search?
Well, we’ve been waiting for a PlayBook packing something more than WiFi to rear its enterprise-friendly head, and there it is — sort of. Search Google for “Sprint PlayBook” and the number one (non-sponsored) result is a page “introducing the BlackBerry 4G Playbook tablet,” which means the companies are right about on schedule for that promised summer release. Clicking on the link just redirects you to the Sprint homepage for now and, sadly, price and exact ship date are still anyone’s guess. There’s enough detail in the search snippet to tell us that this is legit and and an announcement page is ready to go, though — so, WiMAX fans, we hope you like QNX.
Google Search app for iPhone introduces new side-swipe toolbar and other UI tweaks (video)
What you once knew as the Google Mobile App has been rechristened the Google Search app, signifying a renewed focus for Google’s primary iOS application. Having formerly served as a multifunctional access point to all of Google’s varied web apps, the new software is now geared to serve search needs first, with its other offerings relegated to a secondary “Apps” menu. There’s also the addition of a new toolbar, accessible by swiping left to right, and improved fast-app switching support. The ever-present bug fixes and a few more user interface tweaks complete the list of changes. To get your download on, you may exploit either the source link below or the QR code above.
