Google… I have a suggestionPosted in: Featured, My Great Ideas
Who here uses a mac???
Those of you who don’t… Quick look is a similar thing to Cover flow in iTunes, except it is for files and folders.
(BTW, this is by no means a plug for Apple, hell I don’t even have an iPhone)
Anyway, I have always wondered… Why doesn’t Google or any other search engine for that matter ever try and retain people beyond the point of their search results?
If your like me and always get really frustrated when you search for images and can’t properly see what is in them from the small thumbnails they provide. And you usually end up clicking the forwards and backwards buttons over 20 times before you find the right image, then you are going to love this idea. I think: Google should build a ‘quick look’ or ‘cover flow’ feature into their image search results. This same idea could work for its web page search results to stop people from clicking in and out of pages until they find the right one. Meanwhile, Google increases the time that people spend inside its search engine and thus increases exposure to its paid results or ‘Adwords’. Plus, the user feels more inclined to use Google’s search engine site above competitors as they can scroll through search results with a visual rather than text only, possibly scanning way more than the conventional 10 per page and help Google’s robots understand how these site visuals can impact on it’s keyword rankings…
Alternatively, Yahoo or Windows Live could do this and no doubt it would create an edge…
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Will
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Dillon Decicio - 24/3/2009
Will, you might try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5579
You might just love the darned little plugin that I activate on accident and annoys me.
Unfortunately a google spider bot is unable to interpret the relevance of an image to a search and it’s actually pretty much incapable of ever learning how.
Also, adsense and adwords as far as I know only run based upon ‘impressions.’ Which is how many times a page is viewed, and how many times a link is clicked in those ads. Time spent on the page isn’t measured for payout, which is smart because I exist.
I tend to leave tabs open for days, so those companies are wasting their money if the measured a session kept open. (which is also expensive on server processing power so web masters have little incentive to do so.)
Food for thought.
admin - 25/3/2009
Hey Dillon,
You were right, when i installed it i thought WOW! that is awesome, except very soon it started to annoy me. It would be really cool if they built in a preview function for your search results similar to the new safari beta 4.0 don’t you think?
Your also right about the impressions, however if paid site have this as a bonus feature, like a quicklink for view site snapshot of the side of the search results it might increase clicks for google and reduce lost customers who click through the search engine and don’t find what they are looking for.
Thanks for the comment mate,
Glad you liked the post!
Will
Dillon Decicio - 2/4/2009
They also don’t preserve the order of pictures in your search, and at least with DevArt have a tendency to show you TONS of irrelevant results. That’s why cooliris bugs me at times, that and a few other things. But Safarish and neo-apple features would be quite nice in it.
And the quick view in searches would give more incentive for ad-buyers to pay for ads, so yes. The quickview thing would be nice, but would be hard on processing server side. That is best left to a Firefox plug-in or something similar.