OK. But consider this. When I searched "Vernor Vinge rainbow's end" in
Google, a single sponsored link for the book listing at Amazon
appeared.
Anyway, regardless of ranking schemes, Google has "keyed searches"
(searches that partition the results by type) -- i.e., the same search
can give results specific for images, books, articles (Google
Scholar), blogs, etc. (I suppose we would call these faceted searches
these days except they push you into separate interfaces.)
If those keys were more obvious in the interface, the sort of thing we
are talking about would be possible. As it is, Google provides
Web
Images
Video
News
Maps
more »
in their simple interface, so getting to other results is not obvious.
The more » tab pushes a DOM popup with further options
Blogs
Books
Froogle
Groups
Patents
Scholar
even more »
Google periodically changes things around. I recall that Froogle was
in the main page previously and neither Books nor Scholar were on the
more » popup.
Tom
On 3/18/07, Karen Coyle <kcoyle_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Tom Keays wrote:
> > Bad form. Following up on my own post. I also wonder why Google
> > doesn't expose Google Books content in their general search engine
> > results?
> The main reason, which came up at the LC meeting at Google last week, is
> that they don't have a way yet to rank the books. And even if they
> figure out how to rank the books, how will they interleave the ranked
> books and the ranked web pages?
--
Tom
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 09:15:53 EDT