Thursday, December 23, 2010

Skills Presentation: Suggest a New Google Search Page Idea

Q. Provide a new product or product improvement that would improve the general user experience of the standard Google Search platform. 

A. Create/offer a true 'Everything' search page or Search Tab feature.

Situation: Even though the standard/main Google search page result is supposed to be a collection of 'everything' in reality it's mostly 'web' results, with an occasional news story, image, or video thrown in to color the web only results.  There is a need for a True 'Everything' web page search tab.

By providing a page (template) that general users can access that searches across the standard already available categories (web, images, blogs, news, videos, etc.), and displays the results in one page (i.e., tiled format with separate sections like Google news categories are displayed) would provide a new and meaningful user search experience.

This true 'everything' search function could be built from the existing news story display platform where different categories can be displayed/removed at the user level. With the page set up, users could truly search all the Google categories without having to leave the 'everything' search page template to see the collection of results. The section categories could offer the first three-ten results from each  Google category that is select to appear on the page. 

Product Suggestion: Create a true 'search everything' template/tab that will allows a user to search across categories (i.e., web, news, images, shopping, etc), from a central user defined page.

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