Lots of Product Announcements At Google Today

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Post by dawie » Wed, May 16, 2007, 9:26 PM UTC

Lots of Product Announcements At Google Today
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Re: Lots of Product Announcements At Google Today

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Post by anonymous » Thu, May 17, 2007, 1:05 AM UTC

Google's new timeline search is practically identical in concept to my startup, onetimeline. Compare:

http://onetimeline.com/timeline?query=hendrix

and

http://www.google.com/views?q=hendrix+view%3Atimeline&btnGt=Search

Re: Lots of Product Announcements At Google Today

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Post by reitzensteinm » Thu, May 17, 2007, 1:33 AM UTC

anonymous wrote: post #2

Google's new timeline search is practically identical in concept to my startup, onetimeline. Compare: http://onetimeline.com/timeline?query=hendrix and http://www.google.com/views?q=hendrix+view%3Atimeline&btnGt=Search

Cool site. Are you slowly indexing terms that people have 'voted' for by searching? I noticed that many of the terms I tried (specifically picked because I doubted they'd been searched for before, eg, Australian politicians) had zero results. I also noticed that searching for Hitler pegged one article in 2015.

Sudden and significant competition from Google must cut a bit, but there's at least a good chance that it'll just end up as another cool but abandoned (at least from a marketing perspective) Google product.

Re: Lots of Product Announcements At Google Today

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Post by anonymous » Thu, May 17, 2007, 1:56 AM UTC

reitzensteinm wrote: post #3

anonymous wrote: post #2

Google's new timeline search is practically identical in concept to my startup, onetimeline. Compare: http://onetimeline.com/timeline?query=hendrix and http://www.google.com/views?q=hendrix+view%3Atimeline&btnGt=Search

Cool site. Are you slowly indexing terms that people have 'voted' for by searching? I noticed that many of the terms I tried (specifically picked because I doubted they'd been searched for before, eg, Australian politicians) had zero results. I also noticed that searching for Hitler pegged one article in 2015. Sudden and significant competition from Google must cut a bit, but there's at least a good chance that it'll…

"Are you slowly indexing terms that people have 'voted' for by searching?"

Actually no, but we do direct our crawl to places where we expect to find the most data.

"I also noticed that searching for Hitler pegged one article in 2015."

If you click on the highest detail level you can see that this is a legitimate event. The copyright of "Mein Kampf" expires in 2015.

"Sudden and significant competition from Google must cut a bit, but there's at least a good chance that it'll just end up as another cool but abandoned (at least from a marketing perspective) Google product."

I have very mixed feelings. It's really too early to say exactly how I feel about it :-/

Re: Lots of Product Announcements At Google Today

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Post by anon » Thu, May 17, 2007, 5:39 AM UTC

anonymous wrote: post #4

reitzensteinm wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool site. Are you slowly indexing terms that people have 'voted' for by searching? I noticed that many of the terms I tried (specifically picked because I doubted they'd been searched for before, eg, Australian politicians) had zero results. I also noticed that searching for Hitler pegged one article in 2015. Sudden and significant competition from Google must cut a bit, but there's at least a good chance that it'll…

"Are you slowly indexing terms that people have 'voted' for by searching?" Actually no, but we do direct our crawl to places where we expect to find the most data. "I also noticed that searching for Hitler pegged one article in 2015." If you click on the highest detail level you can see that this is a legitimate event. The copyright of "Mein Kampf" expires in 2015. "Sudden and significant competition from Google must…

I like your UI better than Google's. This may be an opportunity for more publicity.