Filed under: Internet, Google, Search
Google adds new search result views
You can access the new Map View by adding "view:map" to your search. Google will pull up web results matching your search term and plot their locations on a map based on information found on each web page. Similarly, the new Timeline View finds web sites containing dates and plots them along a timeline, letting you find just recent result, or results from a certain period, like 1997-1999. You can access the Timeline View by adding "view:timeline" to your search.
The Info View (view:info) is a bit more subtle. At first glance, it looks just like Google's normal search results. But on the right side of the page is a menu allowing you to select, dates, images, locations, or measurements. In this view, instead of simply listing text from a web site below its link, Google will list any relevant information meeting your request. For example, when you select images you'll either get a link to a web page followed by several thumbnail images from that page, or a line reading "No images for this page."
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