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Google's Wonder Wheel on Drupal

Posted: Fri 03/27/2009 by ramiro

One of Google's current experiments enables participants to use options for restricting search results by certain criteria or to use tools like the wonder wheel for related query suggestions on Google's search result pages.

In this screencast you can see how some of these new search tools, e. g. the timeline and image view, look like and what Google's wonder wheel suggests when searching for Drupal.

If you want to try this yourself and are not based in the US or for some reason don't want to participate in the experiment, paste the following JavaScript code in the address bar of your browser when on google.com and hit return to set the cookie, as demonstrated in the video. Have fun!

javascript:void(document.cookie="PREF=ID=4a609673baf685b5:TB=2:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1227543998:LM=1233568652:DV=AA:GM=1:IG=3:S=yFGqYec2D7L0wgxW;path=/; domain=.google.com");

Via Google Blogoscoped

Submitted by guest (not verified) on Sat, 03/28/2009 - 18:44.
why bother talking over the video if you're going to talk under your breath the entire time?
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Submitted by ramiro on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 18:50.

Looks like I should talk louder next time a record a video. Thanks for the hint and showing that you care.

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Submitted by guest (not verified) on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 16:19.
Thanks for the heads up with this. Looks great and will definitely take the Wonder Wheel for a...um...spin. :)
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Submitted by Tim (not verified) on Sun, 04/19/2009 - 17:33.
Looks like this is not working for people outside usa. I visit google.com located from germany, put in the javascript code post above and hit enter. But I cannot reproduce what the video shows.
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Submitted by ramiro on Sun, 04/19/2009 - 20:45.

I am outside the USA myself, maybe it does not work any more.

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Submitted by Adam (not verified) on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 13:55.
LOL Google's eye is on everything!
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Submitted by harry (not verified) on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 13:24.
Google knows verything. Google is our BIG Brother
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