Personal Injury Law

Google's New Search Results: Timeline View

By Peopleslawyer

I have the Google Blog on my RSS. Today there is something that may be a big help.
From their site:

"Introducing experimental views for search results. There have been a lot of recent improvements to web search, but the appearance of results themselves has been pretty constant -- 10 or so web pages in a vertical list. Frequently this is exactly the right format, but for some searches you need more options and more control. That's why we've created our experimental search page to let you try out some of our newest ideas.

Timeline view

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.

The graph across the top of the page summarizes how dates in your results are spread through time, with higher bars representing a larger number of unique dates. Click anywhere on the graph to zoom in to that particular period of time, and use the text box to the right to specify any range of years, months, or days. Much as in map view, the results below the graph emphasize the dates contained on each page.

Go here for more.

Full post as published by A Georgia Lawyer on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).