New Google Search Technologies Make Information Easier to Discover, Organize and Share

Despite the claims of many pundits on the Web, Google today did not announce the release of Google Health, as many claimed they would. Maybe tomorrow… Maybe next week… Who knows? Organizing or drilling down search content into folders isn’t new, original or unique, so I’m not sure why people are getting excited by this concept.

Google’s press release notes the following products have been released — Google Co-op, Google Desktop 4, and Google Notebook. But only the Labs product, Google Trends, is the really interesting one of the bunch. Showing search trends over time — basically, what people are searching for — can be interesting. Mental health terms don’t show much, but type in a popular entertainment figure (like “Britney Spears”) and you’ll see some interesting trending data. And pretty graphs! Everybody loves pretty graphs.

Google Co-op also looks pretty interesting, but it’s returning a Page Not Found error at the moment.

Dr. John Grohol is the CEO and founder of Psych Central. He is an author, researcher and expert in mental health online, and has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues -- as well as the intersection of technology and human behavior -- since 1992. Dr. Grohol sits on the editorial board of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking and is a founding board member and treasurer of the Society for Participatory Medicine.

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