Skills Presentation: Improve the Look of a Search Results Page

Q. Make a recommendation to improve the presentation or look of the standard Google results page. 

A.  On each page of a Google search the total number of results, as well as the total time it took to run the search is regularly/always displayed just below the search bar.

To a real web searcher the total volume is actually irrelevant, as time strapped users are more interested in one good result than in 182 million links they could never visit. It is clear that these displayed numbers actually don't have any real value to the traditional user who uses the site to explore the web to find an apartment, a dentist, qualified auto mechanic or a new job.

Although techies and SEO experts might still want to know (for fun) how many keyword results there are, or how many milliseconds the search query took, the general user would instantly adapt if that number were no longer available/displayed.  My recommendation to eliminate these numbers from the search page, or provide it as an option that can be enabled by the user in custom/preferences section, cleans up the search page by increasing the white space on the page.

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.