Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 by Andy Beal

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Google Lets You Preview 6-Year Old Technology

OK, you’re either going to love this new Google search feature, or think it’s the ugliest thing since, I don’t know, the last ugly thing you hated! ;-)

Ready?

Here we go:

Yes, Google is revolutionizing search with the addition of "Page previews" to your advanced search options.

Wait! This just in.

I’ve been reporting on this type of technology for almost 6 years now? Oh yeah, that’s right.

Anyway, if you really can’t be bothered to click-through and see if a site is right for you, you can enable the not-so-new preview option.

Thoughts?


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8 comments on “Google Lets You Preview 6-Year Old Technology”

  1. searchengineman Says:

    November 3rd, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Only an engineer could come up with something this ugly. I think there is a more elegant way they could have done this. My guess is the decision is a technical reason, so the maximum amount of users can see the same results with out Java, Ajax etc..

  2. Jaan Kanellis Says:

    November 3rd, 2009 at 1:17 pm

    Truthfully? It looks gross. I thought Google UI research would be better than this.
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  3. David Walker Says:

    November 3rd, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    Does Google’s new search feature make any difference? Better searching experience or more confusion?
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  4. Michael Martinez Says:

    November 3rd, 2009 at 1:59 pm

    We can now official diagnose Google with Microsoft Syndrome. They are leaders in innovation because they follow everyone else’s footsteps and claim to be innovators.

    Google was the third search engine to introduce Blended/Universal Search — but most people are not aware of that. A9 was the first to do it.
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  5. Paulo Diaz Says:

    November 3rd, 2009 at 2:57 pm

    I might be interested to see if they apply the same “new technology” to the sponsor links in order to avoid useless clicks and click fraud………but that might sound like shooting yourself on the foot since now they cannot charge for all the waste so users can preview the ads first……..uhmmmm

  6. new year Says:

    November 4th, 2009 at 1:35 am

    very good!!!

  7. Saima Farooque Says:

    November 4th, 2009 at 3:23 am

    Very nice post !!

  8. Tony Murphy Says:

    November 4th, 2009 at 4:20 pm

    The Fast Food Web Approaches At Blinding Speed…

    Thanks for the tip-off!

    cheers
    Tony

 
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