I always got a lot of respect for the Google site. It was(is?) one of those popular webpages dedicated to ONLY search-- like, one of those times you went to the mall to get yourself a handbag and NEVER allowed yourself to do anything else!-- the page is entirely dedicated to a simple search. Anytime I heard 'search engine'- I'd immediately think of Google. I was one of those big fans who used to google everything-- any help Mom wanted for her school project, anything Dad would want me to know( I DON'T like it when my Dad knows that I don't know!)-- any chartbusters in music or reviews of some movie.. and hey, academics. But truth is, the interface has remained static for a decade, people submit keyword queries, and the engine spits back a list of 10 hyperlinked results. (I wouldn't forget the ads!)There ARE attempts from non-Google engines to offer alternatives to the standard search interface. Ask.com, for instance, lets a user see a thumbnail view of each Web page before the link is clicked on. And Clusty.com extracts words that are found on the search-results pages, letting a user drill down to a more specific search. For instance, a search for "MIT" can be specified to include references to "laboratory," "Massachusetts Institute of Technology," "project," and other words or word combinations.Now for the real thing. Last week, the search giant began a public experiment in which users can make their search results look a little different from the rest of the world's. Those who sign up are able to switch between different views, so instead of simply getting a list of links (and sometimes pictures and YouTube videos, a relatively recent addition to the Google results), they can choose to see their results mapped, put on a timeline, or narrowed down by informational filters. Thus, this would benefit and improve everyone's 'Search Experi

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