[Web4lib] Re: Google News Timeline

[IsisInform at aol.com]

Thanks for sending this Bernie.  
 
The concept of organzing information is Google's lead  sentence, even as 
they beta test chronological order.   Google seems to be recognizing their 
users' frustration  with disorganized presentation.  To a user, relevance often 
 looks like random. 
 
I recently searched another database for the contents of one issue of  a 
journal.  The results were returned in order of relevance, even  though all 
article titles equally met the same  issue requirement.  That's just silly and 
increasingly  sophisticated users know it.
 
 
Katherine
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In a message dated 4/23/2009 9:05:49 AM US Mountain Standard Time,  
web4lib-request at webjunction.org writes:

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:09:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: "B.G. Sloan"  <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Web4lib] Google News Timeline
To:  web4lib at webjunction.org
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Something new from Google  Labs: Google News Timeline...

"At Google, we spend a lot of time  thinking about how to organize 
information. Today, we're announcing Google  News Timeline--a new feature on Google 
Labs that organizes many different  types of search results on a zoomable, 
graphical  timeline."
http://googlenewsblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/introducing-google-news-timeline.
html  

Not sure if I'd use it much, but it's kinda interesting to see  Google 
playing around with different search result display  formats.

Bernie Sloan
Sora Associates
Bloomington,  IN



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