Google Introduces New Experimental Views

Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Tuesday, 29 of January , 2008 at 8:18 am

Google has announced new experimental views:

• Map View
• Timeline View
• Info View

I must confess. The timeline view isn’t exactly what I expected. From the Official Google Blog:

Timeline view does the same thing as map view, but for dates found on the web. This includes dates of upcoming or historic events, or even biographical information — all generated automatically from your search results.

In other words, you can search a timeline of your particular query. If you are doing research on corporate tort law, for instance, then you can search a timeline of relevant events related to that topic. That’s a useful search tool, I admit. But what I would consider just as useful, or even more useful, is the ability to filter search results by time of publication. If when making the same search on corporate tort law, I find that a post regarding an important historical development was made in August 2003 and it appears too high in the search for my tastes, I can search for results that were made more recently. So if I only want blog and website content searches related to corporate tort law dated from January 2006 to present then I can make that specific query and the search engines would return a SERP with results that meet that criteria. Then I’d like to have the ability to organize those search results by time or relevance.

I can see a time when such searches are possible. But for now, I guess we’ll have to settle for the timeline view.

Category: Search Engines

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