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Give Away More Info On Google's SERPs

Update: Google also posted on the Enterprise Blog about how you can utilize richer snippets for Site Search. Original Article: Today at Google's Searchology event, the company announced (among other things) that it was rolling out richer snippets. The snippets will extract and show more useful info from results than the current ones, Google says.

Matt Cutts on Overlooked Items from Searchology

Yesterday Google held its Searchology event and announced a number of new things. The big announcements, which were widely covered included:

New Android App Navigates You Through the Universe

Google Unleashed the Sky Map for Android today at the company's Searchology event. This is an application that is available for download at the Android Market, and will let you find planets and constellations in the sky. What will they think of next?

Google Aims to Square Away Relevancy

At Google's Searchology event today, the company discussed a new feature coming soon to Google Labs. It's called Google Squared and will apparently pull unstructured data right from the web and put it into spreadsheets. From the sound of it, you can search for something and receive a list of info that relates to that query.

Google Takes the Next Step in Personalized Search

Google's Searchology event was today, and Google used this to give kind of a "state of search" presentation, something the company often does in a variety of formats. One of the highlights of the event was Marissa Mayer introducing some changes to Google's search results. This is called "Search Options," and allows users to "slice" and "dice" results in a number of ways.

Universal Search & Other Searchology Surprises

When Google yesterday invited a number of reporters to come down to Mountain View for an event they called Searchology, I figured they had something in the works. I had to turn down the invitation because of other commitments, but we sent Enquiro's Director of Technology and analytics blogger, Manoj Jasra down in my stead.

Google Searchology Lowdown

I had the opportunity to attend Google's Searchology event and found it very exciting viewing it from the paradigm of a member of the press. All major news organizations were there: SearchEngineWatch, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, ZDNet, PC World, Boston Globe, Forbes and Search Engine Land.

Searchology from Google

I just had a chance to watch part of the webcast of Google’s Searchology presentation with Marissa Meyer, Craig Silverstein and others.