Tryst With Destiny

Google has recently launched Google Squared. It is a product which has the potential to change the way people use search. This is what is writes about it on Google's official blog.

Google Squared is an experimental search tool that collects facts from the web and presents them in an organized collection, similar to a spreadsheet. If you search for [roller coasters], Google Squared builds a square with rows for each of several specific roller coasters and columns for corresponding facts, such as image, height and maximum speed.


While gathering facts from across the Internet is relatively easy (albeit tedious) for humans to do, it's far more difficult for computers to do automatically. Google Squared is a first step towards solving that challenge. It essentially searches the web to find the types of facts you might be interested in, extracts them and presents them in a meaningful way.

This technology is by no means perfect. That's why we designed Google Squared to be conversational, enabling you to respond to the initial result and get a better answer. If there's another row or column you'd like to see, you can add it and Google Squared will automatically attempt to fetch and fill in the relevant facts for you. As you remove rows and columns you don't like, Google Squared will get a fresh idea of what you're interested in and suggest new rows and columns to add.

What interests me is the Squared can be really useful when I am doing comparison or when I want to research about topics like "Indian State". I have always believed that Internet is an awesome repository of information. The problem is that we don't have enough tools to mine this information effectively. Squared is a way forward. I hope we get more such products. A big thumbs up to Google.