The Evolving Google Search

Google is arguably the most-used search engine on the Internet, but the bare-bones design seems to need a bit of an update.

In what they’re calling “Experimental Search,” Google is testing out some different search options to make the searching experience richer. One of the experiments is different views for search results:

See results on a timeline, map, or in context of other information types. With these views, Google’s technology extracts key dates, locations, measurements, and more from select search results so you can view the information in a different dimension.

Another cool idea is keyword suggestions. It works like this: as you type in a word in the Google search bar, a list of results with the same starting letters will show up with the number of results for each term. Users of this Firefox plug-in already know how useful it is, but I think Google adding it as a function for all users will be helpful.

Check out this Google Labs Experimental Search page for more.