Comments on: Automated Faceted Analysis In Google?

By: Lib.Labs

Lib.Labs — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:34:04 +0000

Automated faceted analysis In Google? | Disruptive Library Technology Jester http://t.co/suqljqtL via @datag | http://t.co/IArk6Xi5

By: the Jester

the Jester — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:52:45 +0000

@Ecommere : Thanks for updating the examples -- particularly the one for nursery. I had not seen the "Looking for local results for ...?" prompt yet.

By: Ecommere web design

Ecommere web design — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:46:21 +0000

Although I just now discovered that they do offer local refine results on some random words: http://webdesign.verangomedia.com/new-google-refine-feature-looking-for-local-results-for/

By: Ecommere web design

Ecommere web design — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:22:50 +0000

Looks like they discontinued this feature for destination searches like ‘bahamas’ (http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/google-refine-results/)

But if you type in generic phrases like ‘nursery’ it provides suggestions like this:
“See results for: baby nursery”

By: Can Google be Out-Googled? in Disruptive Library Technology Jester

Can Google be Out-Googled? in Disruptive Library Technology Jester — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:00:48 +0000

[...] Can we do it? As the lead (and perhaps only) cheerleader for the Out-Google Google thesis, I’m starting to have my doubts. First came what looked like automated faceted analysis in Google. That turned out to be Google Co-op Health — a human-driven effort to add metadata to selected websites that appear in the search engine results. (By the way…why didn’t we [the library profession] think of that? And now that it has been thought of why aren’t we doing more with enlisting the aid of experts from their own field in categorizing their segment of the world of information?) ¶ [...]

By: the jester

the jester — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:03:33 +0000

Thanks for the sleuthing, everyone. I had visions of "No humans were harmed or even used in the creation of this [taxonomy]" (a play on the early tag line at the bottom of Google News pages) with a new batch of computers and algorithms scanning the pages of the web for common terms.

By: Richard Akerman

Richard Akerman — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:43:21 +0000

It’s coming out of Google Co-op Health.

http://www.google.com/coop/topic?cx=health_devel

By: Thomas Dowling

Thomas Dowling — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:08:41 +0000

I’ve seen posts on searchenginewatch.com suggesting this is a forthcoming feature of the forthcoming Google Health, which is why you found it for a medical search. Similar facets display for “diabetes”, “tuberculosis”, or even just “kidney” (but not “knee injuries” or “health effects of diet”).

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:14:20 +0000

It displays for some health topics but not for others – but the syntax seems to work whether or not the ‘refine results’ text appears (e.g. for “asthma” there is no ‘refine results’ option, but the “more:…” operator still works, and “asthma more:condition_treatment” gives you different results from a search on just “asthma”.

Good spotting, thanks

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:51:03 +0000

It’s been around for a couple of months, I think, but only for health and medical terms.

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Well, I did a little investigation, and found that actually, it’s also there for some other topics: “Google Coop”. It’s a human-intelligence-harnessing indexing thingy to augment search results. Hmmm…. There are several topics listed, and I got it to show up in search results for several medical-related things and also for travel information (try “Honolulu” and you get dining guides, etc.), but I tried a few searches around the other topics and got nothing. It seems to be very much in-progress.