Oh, Cade Metz is covering the event....
*prepares for some heavy Google-bashing*
Google’s search engine doodle turned from the somewhat troublesome bouncy balls to a shade of chrome today in the build-up to the company’s web search event in San Francisco. Ahead of that, there’s been speculation about what the ad broker will announce. Google has already hinted that its doodle has something to do with the …
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... Google.Me - A new paradigm in search. Your pals will tell you what you should search for, and will run the search for you, and go through the results for you, and take the decisions for you: all the while, you are mesmerized by the shiny trinket.
Oh and by the way: It's also "social".
Did a couple of searches for airports. LAX shows up in the top results, for both with and without the instant results, but only ORD shows up without the instant results switched on.
Now some Robert Redford movie is the top result...
Not sure if I will be using this a lot; i like to interpret the results (however uninterpreted/massaged/preselected-based-on-my-browsing-behavior they were before presented to me...) myself.
Compared to the slot machine aspect of "the button" this could be interesting and useful, especially in situations where you're looking for something obscure that requires multiple keywords
Understand it may not be for everyone, and could see it not working so well for slow connections... so not trying to be disagreeable here - just saying, I could see this as having some useful potential for me.