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Google’s new Experimental search

May 16th, 2007 by James Westfall

So Google’s now unleashing some new ways to search. So far, my favorite is the left-hand search navigation that’s already been popping up in many of my current searches. It’s come in handy the times it has shown up however. I think the feature I’m looking forward to the most is :map. It’d be instantly helpful for many things I end up searching for if I can find them geographically just by appending :map to my search, such as “Boca Raton:map” and up pops a map of my town.

Now, when I’m busy reading Aardvarchaeology, I can pinpoint on a map where Martin is talking about!

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  • 1 Martin R May 17, 2007 at 2:45 am

    Thanks! But I don’t get it: can you at the moment do a map search or are you looking forward to being able to do it?

  • 2 James Westfall May 17, 2007 at 9:02 am

    You’ll be able to do it soon enough in the future, Martin! And it still needs some work as my search for “Gottland” turned up rather short.

  • 3 Mothandrust Jun 2, 2007 at 9:48 am

    Google just amaze me. The google history saver is the bee knees for me. I can leave everything offline and not worry about my house blowing up anymore.

    Thank you Mr Google.