With all the current shenanigans going on between Microsoft and Yahoo! (that being that the former has struck a deal with the latter in which Yahoo!'s search engine will be powered by Bing), the technology world seems to have forgotten about Google's plans to develop further. The company has certainly been mentioned a lot lately as a competitor, but nothing has been speculated about them improving their current offering. Now, however, according to Mashable, we've got a sudden announcement about the topic from the company itself. Google has been working on a re-engineered version of their search engine lately, and they've got a (public) developer test website to show for it.Google said that, "For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google's web search. It's the first step in a process that will let us push the envelope on size, indexing speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and other dimensions. The new infrastructure sits 'under the hood' of Google's search engine, which means that most users won't notice a difference in search results. But web developers and power searchers might notice a few differences, so we're opening up a web developer preview to collect feedback." As you will hopefully have picked up, this isn't simply a few upgrades to the current search engine, but rather a whole new version of it.
So, are you keen to try this out for yourself? By all means, head over to the preview and give it a shot, and be sure to let us know what you think. We've given it a quick test ourselves by searching for Neowin on the old version of Google, and then on the new version. The results are certainly slightly different, but whether it's a change for the better is up to the user. Again, post a comment with any feedback.
I wondered that myself, lol.
It uses Ajax now, not just regular html post.
Don't you mean Get? :p
Probably because it's running on a server with not nearly the load of their public one, but still... instant results.
Probably because it's running on a server with not nearly the load of their public one, but still... instant results.
That certainly is damn fast.
Not much of a difference?! That's twice the efficiency!
Not much of a difference?! That's twice the efficiency!
It uses Ajax to send the data, rather than reloading the page.
A welcome, albeit small, change.
Not that interesting. Google is constantly working on improvement to its search engine, since it is its major product. It may take Microsoft 7 years to release a new OS (XP-W7), and it just forget about projects (ie6, WinMo), that doesn't mean all companies can be so complacent.
o_O
But regardless, it is true, companies are always doing stuff behind the scenes, some of which may never even see the light of day.
I think you forgot Windows Vista there...
Microsoft dont just create a few web apps and buy a few other already-established businesses, their model is a lot different. Yes they buy other companies out and so on (they are notorious for this) but they do have a vast range of their own products that they have been constantly refining over the years. They may have had a bad patch from 2002-2005ish, but especially recently they have come leaps and bounds in my book.
Nothing against google, or MS or anyone, but you cant compare the two like that as they both work completely differently.
Good to see some evolution, but it needs work yet.
And at least it doesn't censor results like bing.
Damn.. Might be something to it!
Damn.. Might be something to it!
that's because of that 'christwire' site, it must have been doing some sort of search engine optimization to get that phrase into the suggestions box...
1. a page with 10,000 listed article links
2. something that has absolutely nothing to do with what I typed
3. a business that wants you to buy their solution (even though it can be coded ourselves). Or something listed as "free" only to not be.
Just take me to the freakin' page that has what I want!
1. a page with 10,000 listed article links
2. something that has absolutely nothing to do with what I typed
3. a business that wants you to buy their solution (even though it can be coded ourselves). Or something listed as "free" only to not be.
Just take me to the freakin' page that has what I want!
so true
ive searched for somet hings related to my college course for hours and not found anythin
sometimes you need that exact keyword
Google IS NOT the save all ot everything!
Google IS NOT the save all ot everything!
yes it is .. these changes will make finding porn so much faster ... no need to spend seconds ... now is milisec ... awesome
why dont u use bing's video search?lol
Good job Google...!
Why not?
Trust me, it's 100% identical to the normal Google page
-d
Please try your search again in a few hours.
We are upgrading elements of our data center. The Caffeine sandbox should be available for searching again in a few hours.
LOL :'
I use Bing, way cooler to start your day with nice images and yes pretty good results!
quick example...
sometimes i'm receiving results of (random example, not sure whether this is real, just showing what principle i mean) "laptop" when searching for "laptops". i might INTEND to search for the plural... mh?
or "similar" words... argh...
sometimes i just get WAAAAY too many results and have to scan the links like heck...
sometimes i use "NOT [bla bla]" and i find that expression in some results... google tries to fool me every day, still it is the best search engine IMO ^^
Glassed Silver:win
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