Simplicity has been an important element in Google’s success in the online search world. However, as the company has grown and attempted myriad forays into new ways of finding and presenting information — images, video, news, maps, etc. — it has created “silos,” perhaps threatening that very simplicity. This week’s announcement that Google is taking “its critical first steps toward a universal search model” is an effort by the company to return to those simple roots, in a sense.
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Google Mixes It Up to Widen Search World
Posted by: Fred J. Aun May 17, 2007 11:10 AMSimplicity has been an important element in Google’s success in the online search world. However, as the company has grown and attempted myriad forays into new ways of finding and presenting information — images, video, news, maps, etc. — it has created “silos,” perhaps threatening that very simplicity. This week’s announcement that Google is taking “its critical first steps toward a universal search model” is an effort by the company to return to those simple roots, in a sense.