Information Week has an article that says a new search engine site, SearchMash http://www.searchmash.com/, that allows it to try out new search features to see how people like them.
http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193400388
Google was trying to keep its ownership of the site a secret, so as to not bias the people trying it out. Guess that idea's out.
IW found out about the ownership by looking at the privacy page http://www.searchmash.com/about/privacy.html, which reveals the site is operated by Google.
A chance to let Google know what kinds of features you'd like added to the search page? |
Sorry, that first sentence should say "that allows Google to try out..." |
And I just found that there are already entries in blogoscoped that noticed the ownership. But the IW article has comments from Google explaining what it's about. |
ohh, and the wikipedia article that says Google owns it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearchMash
Poor google, they can't do anything secretly! |
They're testing new features such as a Wikipedia box for every search result in place of the images box and the images box moved to the bottom.
A very useful feature as Wikipedia is the link I click a lot of the time anyway. |
Ya I know Jack, I posted about it here.
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/74251.html#id74251 |
