Google and Time

January 5, 2009

Time is a big deal at Google. Only a few Web search outfits manipulate time in a useful way. The GOOG has a couple of patent documents that disclose some of the company’s methods for dealing with this slippery notion. You can see one example of a historical time graph by navigating to Google.com. If you are outside the US, you have to click navigate to a country news page, click on US, and then launch your query for there. Even that may not work for everyone. Here’s what you see for the Googley query “Albert Einstein”. You have to scroll to the bottom of the page.

timeline

In this example, Googzilla is including book results and related searches to help the curious in their quest for information about the special theory of relativity.

Stephen Arnold, January 5, 2008

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