Google Squared Review: Spreadsheet Based Search Tool

Although Bing doesn’t seem a potential threat to Google, people at Googleplex are not complacent enough to sit back and relax. Adding another weapon to their search engine armory, Google released its new search tool called Google Squared. The new search tool is an interesting piece that allows you to pull out information about a specific topic from around the web into a spreadsheet. Google had announced the Squared for the first time in May at Google’s Searchology event in May. Squared is designed to support different types of research. For instance, you’ll get some bang on results for searches like if you are looking to write a good paper on solar system for your school. Squared will offer you a chart describing all the planets and their behavior. Similarly if you wanna new dog, Squared will square up your search and allow you to find the breeds.  Google Squared is still in the Labs, and under testing. Not everything about Squared is perfect, it has some negatives along with the positives.

Have a look into some of the pros and cons of Google Squared

Cons

First let’s deal with the darker side of the search tool. Say you give a search term newspaper, which I am sure most of you might do to look for the best news providers. What irks is that you get a random collection of publications. To add to the misery, the information are simply inexplicable. Apart from the newspapers image and description Google Squared also came up with their Justice, Pakistan, and Games. Watch out! The Monitor’s game is Bionic Commando and the The Nation’s justice is Alien vs. Predator, lol. All you can do is thank Google and read the paper yourself,lol.

Pros

Squared seems great with more specific searches. Suppose you are looking for the novels of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Squared provides you the exact list of the novels, the only goof-up is that you get the movies intersecting the books. Of course you can excuse Google for making directors out of authors, lol. In a similar way you can get the precise newspaper result if you search with the name of the newspaper like The Sun newspaper.

Google allows you the facilities of adding rows and columns to the spreadsheet according to your requirement. For instance you have given a search for a newspaper and it doesn’t appear on the list. In that case, you can add the results as rows, and then save the results. Google attributes each of the facts to another source on the web, this helps to assure their reliability.

What we could make out of the first impression is that Google Squared seems great on concept, and user interface, but  inefficient with search results. If you have something to share on Squared drop in your comments.

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