Overview of Universal Search
Univeral Search has changed the search engine landscape (err, read; Google) a lot. We see these results everyday on the internet while using search engines. My goal with this overview is to provide you with examples of universal search, and also other curiosities seen in the Google Search engine. I was inspired by a previous post on search engine land by Danny Sullivan, but by date of today, that post is almost one and a half year old and the landscape might have changed a bit. In 2008 another post was launched showing some of the universal blended results here.
what is universal search?
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Examples of universal search items
Image
Video
Maps
Books (replaced by Google Base?)
News
Stocks
Blogs
Products (Google Base)
Code snippets
A Full Blend of items
Other curiosities
Google provides more results in the Google results. They hope these special features improve our search experience.
Weather
Time (in location)
Calculator
Unit Conversion
Dictionary Definitions
Spell Checker (does this automatically, ‘Did you mean? ‘ )
Local Search
Movie Showtimes
Music Results
Airline Travel Info & Flight Tracking
Currency Info & Converter
Package Tracking
Patent Search
Area Code (Shows a map )
Related Searches
Translated Searches
Country / Calling codes
Travel information
Football (soccer) information
Google is experimenting with universal search all the time, so it could be that you detect new, yet unpublished, features of the Google search engine. I’ll try and keep this list updated.
The full disclosed list is published on the Google website itself. , you will be able to find here. Note: I find some of the examples not working anymore so these may have been replaced over time.
