Google now does additional related queries:
as well as tracking where people go from search results:
- Free Google Wifi @ Heathrow Airport, London - Nov 24, 2005
- Google SiteMaps for Movable Type - now with correct Last Modified dates - Jun 06, 2005
- Søkemotoroptimalisering & neteffects.no - May 17, 2005
- Google Maps UK - Apr 26, 2005
- Google Suggestions, version 1 - Dec 13, 2004
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On a Google-related note: I think I spotted you commenting in my blog the other day using a Gmail address. Upcoming post on your Gmail adventures? :)
Posted by: Jorunn on June 1, 2004 03:11 PMGoogle has been doing the tracking thing for a looong time. The thing is they only do it occasionally to random users. Seems like a good idea to me. First of all they don't create too much attention to the tracking, second they don't use a lot of resources tracking a huge amount of users. It would probably be quite the headacke to track all of the sessions on Google.
The related searches feature is fairly new, I like it. :-)
Posted by: Jarle on June 1, 2004 11:56 PMFunny. My Google does not display related searches. (And I use the English interface, I switched after discovering that the Faroese interface did not include news serach.)
My Google does however include news results, if I search for e.g. "world war" (http://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=world+war&btnG=Search)
Posted by: Jan Egil Kristiansen on June 2, 2004 10:28 AM"Andy Beal has a nice write-up of Google showing off its word clustering tools at the recent Web 2.0 conference: Web 2.0 - Exclusive Demonstration of Clustering from Google. Jason Calacanis also has an MP3 audio file of the presentation..."
mediajunk: Google Explores Clustering (October 20, 2004 02:29 PM)
"Google is working on a new version of its search engine that clusters search results. The company gave a presentation..."