A Google Christmas Wish List

It's Christmas time, a time for making wish lists that may or may not be fulfilled. What do you want for Christmas? What needs to be done before the family gets here? All of these questions usually lead to comprehensive lists that tend to rule our lives during the month of December. Now you can add Google to the list of list recipients, thanks to What we want from Google this Christmas, Pandia lays out 16 requests of the search engine king, most of which are quite reasonable. For this article, I'll pull some highlights out of Pandia's article, but if you want the full text, you'll have to book search may be the beginning of something wonderful - the ability to search the text of most books available in one place. They also caution Google: However, maybe you should communicate more clearly that you respect the intellectual property rights of the authors, and that you will not give searchers access to the whole text unless the copyright owners agree to this or they are compensated financially. That particular statement engages the issues Sullivan spoke of in Chicago. Needless to say, the majority of the search blogs jumped all over Pandia's article and this includes XtraGoogle, still has a mock-up of what that scheme could look like). That would go a long way towards solving some of the navigation issues the Google homepage faces (mainly a place to list the services they offer). Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for latest search news