August 23, 2001

4:45 AM

More google ???: phone/address listings (with a map right to your house!), and (useless) news headlines which contain search terms (some screenshots in case they are just testing).
posted by sylloge (13 comments total)

I may be wrong, but hasn't google been doing this for a month now at least? Nothing really innovative except for the headline thing, sort of. Then again if I wanted headlines I'd just go to the mefi search page.
posted by geoff. at 4:57 AM on August 23, 2001

I can't find it via Search, but I know this is a double-post from some time ago. Anyone want to offer the proof?
posted by briank at 6:08 AM on August 23, 2001

the phone address has been posted before, but this post had much more, so it's okay.
posted by corpse at 8:19 AM on August 23, 2001

NO! It's not "okay"! Isn't this the same guy who stole google's design for his home page? Hey Sylloge! take it to alt.google-fetishists!
posted by ericost at 8:47 AM on August 23, 2001

Isn't this the same guy who stole google's design for his home page?

Does Google put medieval woodcuts of drooping fruit trees on its home page?

I think this is new; I use Google five times a day. And old feature was entering address and getting a Yahoo or MapBlast Map, but it was never coupled with a phone book.

Now this is new! I think.
posted by rschram at 9:13 AM on August 23, 2001

They are clearly testing; the results are different than what sylloge has in the screenshots. Probably just turned a different algorithm on for certain nodes on their massive cluster.

I am under the impression that Google aims to unify all their indices (web, Deja/Usenet, Open Directory, mapquest) in one massive cross-linked index. If they pull that one off they will be way, way ahead of anybody else on information retrieval.

Good luck to them, I love Google --doesn't everybody?
posted by costas at 9:28 AM on August 23, 2001

> Good luck to them, I love Google --doesn't everybody?

That would be a definite "no."
posted by valerie at 10:39 AM on August 23, 2001

Why not, valerie?
posted by lbergstr at 10:50 AM on August 23, 2001

How can anyone not love Google?

Also, re double-posting: I'm pretty sure the phone/address stuff is new -- I found it while searching for "Robert Harris enigma" and I was looking for the book, not ol' Bob Harris in Georgia. The headline search is really wacky, which is why I pointed it out: searching for "up" today, I got two news stories: US debt futures edge up after jobless claims rise (Excite Reuters - 8/23/2001) and Smithfield shares pork up on bullish outlook (CBS MarketWatch - 8/23/2001)
posted by sylloge at 12:41 PM on August 23, 2001

What corpse said is correct. The phone/address stuff has been posted here before.

The rest is new. Carry on...
posted by fooljay at 2:57 PM on August 23, 2001

rschram: that was a while ago, so look here.
posted by dhartung at 4:39 PM on August 23, 2001

fooljay, corpse: I stand corrected. Oops :)
posted by sylloge at 4:52 PM on August 23, 2001

No big deal. Your post certainly had enough new information for my tastes...
posted by fooljay at 5:20 PM on August 23, 2001