Google Changes
Google is constantly refining their search functions and results. They've now announced two changes of interest:
1. More useful related searches:
Starting today, we're deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search, and one of its first applications lets us offer you even more useful related searches (the terms found at the bottom, and sometimes at the top, of the search results page).
2. Longer "snippets" (the description in the results listing):
When you enter a longer query, with more than three words, regular-length snippets may not give you enough information and context. In these situations, we now increase the number of lines in the snippet to provide more information and show more of the words you typed in the context of the page.
Comments
So what do you think of this?
Posted by: Vanessa | March 30, 2009 02:07 PM
I think these are both positive changes. The longer snippets are particularly useful in view of the trend of searchers to use longer search phrases (more words).
It's these kind of continual tweaks that keep Google the King of the Hill for search.
Posted by: Richard Byrd | April 4, 2009 07:31 PM