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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: December 11, 2002 Google Webquotes -- "Google WebQuotes annotates the results of your Google search with comments from other websites. This offers a convenient way to get a third party's opinion about each of the returns for your search, providing you with more information about that site's credibility and reputation."
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I disagree that the Google Viewer is just eye-candy. It seems to me to be a very handy pre-viewing mechanism. I did some searches with the preview rate set as fast (2 secs) and found the tool to be very useful. It gives you much more context to allow you to judge if a page will be useful (does the design seem professional, do the graphics hint at the content, does it seem to be academic or business, etc). I wonder how they get the previewing to work so fast. Does google hold a cache of all the sites they index? I'd like to see a similar tool on websites, so that you could get a 'flavour' of a whole site before you explored it further - perhaps as part of a 'site map' section. Very impressive IMHO
Absolutely impressive. It is subtle why it is a better search, but the results are much quicker to go thru this way and it means you are more likely to get a relevant site. And yes they do have a cache, but I'm not too sure how they use it. The regular google cache points to images on the server and gives you a blank spot if it changed...but the coolest thing is that there are no popups. So I would bet they are using the cache and google doesn't cache javascript I don't think so that's how they can be confident of no popupsunders. Posted by: GilbertZ on December 12, 2002 09:22 PM
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