Google Squared is an Exponential Improvement in Search

One of the things I've learned about Google is that the most amazing things will come out of them with barely a whisper of fanfare. Such is the case with Google Squared, a new Google Labs tool that was released today. What does Google Squared do? It organizes and tables information from searches for you in a way that makes it much more useful.

For example, the first thing I put into Google Squared was [science fiction conventions], and I got back:

Not too bad right off the bat, and by clicking on the X boxes, you can remove columns or rows that don't fit. It works even better for things that are very well defined, like [atomic weights of elements]:

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