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Better Organized Search
OK – it's official: I'm on an official Google+ Love Fest! The expanded vision of what Google is up to here is starting to unfold, and it's wonderful.
In a comment on my last post about Google History, +Thomas Morffew noted the "Other" view in History. Click on that and you see Google doing some very interesting organizing of your searches – over time. In the below image, you can see my search for happiness, well, at least you can online searches for terms related to "happiness" through Google search (part of a new project I'm working on).
Aside from showing the nice visual composite, the resulting found objects (or "tasks"), and the results of the searches, it also show you your activity around this search topic over time. Doesn't that graphic kind of remind you of Ripples? Hmmmm…..
Here's what I can't quite tell yet, but I also think that Google may be applying a little bit of the Knowledge Graph here to try to categorize these searches, to clump them, if you will. For instance, my searches for "Twitter" are clumped under a category called "Internet." Wow.
Also, I think that Google may be preparing to allow us to publicly share these historical compilations themselves. Why do I say that? Well, look at the image below. I can edit the title, so that it no longer says "Happiness" but instead "The Search for Happiness." I can also add a little tagline, as I did with "This was part of my research for the new site." I can also delete individual items from the results on this page. A kind of curated search results that can be shared. Wow. What will they think of next?
No, seriously, what will they think of next? I can't wait to see. I feel like a kid in a candy shop…
