Hyped-up I'll point to Jason Schramm, who has more experience with using the site, but I will give my first impressions. Blog search is a tough one, since no one seems to know what people are looking for when they use it. If I search for "Google", so I want the latest news on Google? The best blogs on Google? The most linked articles on Google? Hopefully, Sphere has some unique ideas on managing differing expectations, something we'll learn as we get more experience using it. I do like the way they have different pages with different ways of looking at a query. They've got:
- Standard search, or by date
- Related items on the query, like mainstream media news, photos, books and podcasts
The coolest thing has to be the custom range slider. When viewing results by relevance, you can choose a date range (so they are relevant, but not ancient), and you can choose predetermined ranges, or use a slider to make your own on the fly. This is very reminiscint of Google Finances stock chart/news slider. quote from Jason:It's a shame that people posted about the launch before the small team behind Sphere could be awake to solve any problems that may occur. It was more of a common courtesy thing, which no longer matters since the cat is out of the bag and doesn't want to go back in.
From what I've heard, Sphere emailed their beta testers and asked them not to post on this till 7 am in the morning, hours from now. Considering Om Malik posted on this first Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: InsideGoogle blog, offering the latest news and insights about Google and search engines. Visit theSuggest a Correction
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