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Select your Search Results Size in Google Search

Searching along the web i came across a feature in google search. Google is now allowing the user to select the level of details in the search result. The sizes are quite similar to a shirt size like “S”, “M” and “L” with default being M.

Interesting feature indeed. The “L” option can surely reduce few clicks from the search results page.

Default Medium Selected

Large will surely reduce few clicks

Though small is really of any use as it just provides the urls. The only use i can see for this is when you know where you want to land, but just want to make sure you reach proper url. Google is the way out.

But am just loving the large (”L”) feature. It just provides me an insight if really the link holds what i am looking for. Just think it should allow you to choose what should me default. That would surely be great. Anyways a pretty useful feature Google. Finally

Update: It seems the feature is under test. Google has suddenly stopped providing me the “S”, “M” and “L” option. Common Google. Bring on the “L” button please.

Google Chrome… Is this the Google OS?

Philipp Lenssen posts an interesting post at “blogoscoped.com” about an upcoming project named “Google Chrome”. He mentiones a comic strip he received via mail and also provides a link for the scanned pages.

Now this seems a really interesting project. Google Chrome is an open-source browser from Google which is supposed to render the present Web 2.0 pages, in short applications, best and fastest. The whole concept is based on “same isolation you find in modern operating systems”.

That means all tabs are a seperate entities i.e. processes. The browser has his own task manager. Its own Javascript Virtual Machine. Its own Garbage Collector. And many other features which do seem quite interesting.

But question remains. Is it a similar browser with an interesting “Google”ish buldle? Doesn’t it look quite similar on lines with Opera? Is this what they termed as “Google OS”? Will all the promises about rendering and speed be fulfilled? Time will tell …

Links for detailed and discussions:

• Article at “Google Operating System” : Google Chrome
• Read Write Web: Google Chrome

Update: One thing worth noting. Google chrome is supposed to rest in peace at www.google.com/chrome . But currently it returns a 404 error. Just an observation. Compare the returned page with a normal “google.com/crome” page. For chrome, Google does not say, “The page does not exist”. So this page is indeed coming soon. Fingers crossed …

Google Suggests Finally…

After spending quite a lot of time in labs, finally google suggest has rolled out at google. I always wondered why google didn’t played and allowed others to play with suggest earlier. I understand there is no space available to mark the feature as beta. But as any other Google product, it can and will always improve, no matter if it is marked Beta or now.

Anyways finally it is here. Firsts thing first. It works only at “google.com”. Make sure you direct all your “co.in”s and “co.uk”s to “com”.

Why Google Suggest? Lemme hear it from the makers themselves:

“We find that by providing suggestions upfront, we can help people search more efficiently and conveniently. Below are some great ways Google Suggest can help simplify your searching.

• Help formulate queries: Instead of just typing [hotels in washington] - did you want [hotels in washington dc] or [hotels in washington state]? Don’t remember that song title or person’s name? Let Google help you search (and yes, I ended up choosing “From This Moment” as our wedding song).
• Reduce spelling errors: Since suggestions are spell-corrected using the same “Did you mean?” feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, misspellings and typos can be corrected ahead of time. Instead of wasting your time with a misspelled query like [new yrok times] or [tomorow never dies], search the first time with the correctly-spelled query.
• Saves keystrokes: Who wants to spend their time typing [san francisco chronicle] when you can just type in “san f…” and choose the suggestion right away?”

Source: Google Official Blog

Am now trying to figure the benefits of this nice little feature for myself. Will update the post soon. Though am still awaiting that amazing product out from the Google team. Been long. Will say am looking forward to see the experimental/universal search out of labs onto Google search homepage in some awesome form.