Google has launched two experimental products it hopes will change the way users search for pictures and news.A feature known as Similar Images uses a picture rather than text to find other matching images.Timeline presents information already available in Google News but organised and displayed chronologically.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8009400.stmGoogle News, and More, on a Timeline
Google on Monday unveiled a new experimental product called Google News Timeline that displays news and related search results on an interactive timeline. It offers interesting possibilities for exploring stories, especially older ones, that are largely hidden in newspaper and magazine archives. It is also a powerful way to view trends in culture and society or the careers of famous people.The main page of Google News Timeline displays the top stories divided by columns, with each column representing a day. Users can drag the results left, right, up or down, much as they can with Google Maps, to see different days or to scroll deeper within a day. They can also change the time intervals to weekly, monthly or yearly. One of the interesting features of the main news page is that it includes Time magazine covers, so users can easily scan world events over the years through that prism.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/google-news-and-more-on-a-timeline/Google gives users control over their searchable life
Come on. Admit it. You’ve searched for your own name on Google. Likely, you’ve done it way more than once or twice.And chances are that the hits included something you didn’t like very much — a picture from a particularly bad hair day or a drunken party, perhaps, or maybe that unfortunate incident that was reported in the crime blotter. Google Inc. now is trying to give you a way to control your life — well, at least your life on Google.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9131938Why did Google create News Timeline and not newspapers?
Google Labs has launched News Timeline that allows internet users to search news by date. Why have so few news organisations launched an innovative services like this?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/apr/21/google-newspapersGoogle’s Black-Box Social Network
Google wants to conquer the social networking world without creating an explicit social network.Rather than trying to revive its Orkut networking site, which has been a flop outside of Brazil, Google is is weaving the various components of social networks through its existing services. Your contacts in Gmail and Google Talk, for example, are being turned into a list of “friends” with whom you can share photos from Picasa or blog posts from Blogger.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/googles-black-box-social-network
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