I've never seen that onebox before (I only can see it by adding the &gl=us parameter) |
It's just an alternative format for the News Archive universal result. |
> It's just an alternative format for the News Archive universal result.
That's true, in the sense that you can get to the same results by clicking the timeline button in the News Archive search.
But has the news archive search been broadened? It seems to now include wikipedia pages and a lot of other regular web pages, and it's very liberal in how it extracts dates from those pages.
When I do a timeline search for Uclue...
http://www.google.co.uk/archivesearch?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:official&hs=0fW&q=uclue&gl=us&um=1&ie=UTF-8&scoring=t&sa=X&oi=timeline_result&resnum=11&ct=image
...amusingly, our 2008 April Fools prank is listed as occurring in 1905 (the fictional date used for Albert Einstein's party in the prank). The 1905 date appears ONCE on the page, which also includes SEVENTEEN dates from 2008:
http://uclue.com/?xq=1673
Someone's algorithms need fine-tuning, I think. |
