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Yesterday Google announced a new product out of Google Labs: Google Squared. (Three “Googles” in that last sentence — top that!) What does G Squared do? “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.” Does it work? Sort of. Here are a few sample Squares I created this morning:
Google is really constrained by its legacy results page, the 10 Blue Links we’ve become used to seeing over the past decade. They’ve recently introduced Search Options, but they’re useful for only a small fraction of my searches. Wolfram|Alpha, the obvious competitor for Google Squared, has some advantages: (a) they’re new, so the legacy results page thing doesn’t apply to them, and (b) they’ve been working on their system a lot longer than Google’s been working on Squared. |
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Submitted by: Dan Giancaterino, Education Services Manager
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So Dan, would that first sentence be an example of the next generation of Google – Google Cubed?
[...] tells me so (see number 24 on the list.) Apparently an antique corset also won the Cup in 1896. As I said yesterday, Squared needs some work. But, hey, Wolfram | Alpha’s not perfect, [...]
[...] in the existing Google Spreadsheets.” I agree. But given that last week they announced Google Squared, which sort of does the same thing for information from the Web, it appears that Google’s [...]
Google Squared appears to be similar to my patent application:
Frankly, I am getting a Déjà vu effect while going through the “Google Squared” application because it appears to be very similar in function to my United States patent application which was filed on April 12, 2007 and as publicly disclosed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on October 16, 2008, when the patent application was published.
My patent application is titled as “Method And System For Research Using Computer Based Simultaneous Comparison And Contrasting Of A Multiplicity Of Subjects Having Specific Attributes Within Specific Contexts” bearing Document Number “20080256023” and Inventor name “Nair Satheesh” which may be viewed at http://patft.uspto.gov/ upon Patent Applications: Quick Search.
Google Squared appears to be using at least some if not many of the same methods and systems as set forth by me more than two years ago in my patent application. In fact there are many more methods and systems disclosed in my patent application which I believe will help resolve certain inaccuracies found in current Google Squared application.
I have issued legal notices to Google through my Patent Attorney in the US but Google has not responded yet to any of my notices.
[...] Giancaterino, Internet Librarian, at Jenkins Law Library, in an amusingly titled post, Google Squared Needs a Bit More Time in the Easy Bake Oven, also finds that Google Squared has some issues. Giancaterino suggests that Wolfram/Alpha [...]