Category: Technology Author : JR Posted: March 24, 2009
Tags : google, google search, search engines
Google Tweaking Its Search Results Pages
Google is making some changes to its search results pages. The G-Team announced two sets of tweaks this morning: expanded “related searches” lists and longer search result descriptions.
Associated Search
The first change is designed to provide better “related searches” at the bottom of your search page. Google describes it as a “new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search.” The system, engineers say, will recognize a greater number of queries and languages and deliver more relevant terms.

Longer Descriptions
The second change simply extends the excerpt quoted under each result in certain circumstances. Basically, Google will show longer snippets for longer search terms: If you enter a four-word search term, for example, Google will add extra lines onto the snippets to give you a more detailed view of the various pages.

Exciting? Not exactly. But one of the changes could theoretically come in handy at some point, I guess. Maybe.


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Mar 24, 2009
Is Google inching down the semantic search road a bit further with its new “Associated Search” feature?
Mar 24, 2009
I love them. The SearchWiki feature was already extremely appreciated in my case, and each and every feature that can cover more details about the said searches is key for me. Good job for that latest idea, hope they keep faith in the 'timeline' and 'info' search designs to develop some of these in the future.
Mar 26, 2009
Great ! Longer Descriptions is better to find the content we want.