Directory. Enterprise. Torrents. Patent Search – Patent Community – Patent Exchange - Patents.com. Spezify. The 2008 Founders' Letter. Posted by Sergey Brin, Co-founder & President, Technology Every year our founders take turns writing a letter that is included in our annual report. We originally published the 2008 Founders' Letter on our Investor Relations site. Since today is the annual Stockholders' Meeting at our Mountain View headquarters, we wanted to make it more widely available. We welcome you to have a read, and you can also check out the webcast of the Stockholders' Meeting, beginning at 2 p.m. PT today. – Ed. Introduction Since 2004, when Google began to have annual reports, Larry and I have taken turns writing an annual letter. Nonetheless, I am optimistic about the future, because I believe scarcity breeds clarity: it focuses minds, forcing people to think creatively and rise to the challenge.
This new crisis punctuates the end of our first decade as a company, a decade that has brought great change to Google, the web and the Internet as a whole. Fast-forward to today, the changes in scale are striking. Geo. Visible Tweets – Twitter Visualisations. Now with added prettine. Browse Twibes Twitter Groups. KartOO visual meta search engine. Advancing Advanced Search - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind. Advanced search is the ugly child of interface design -always included, but never loved.
Websites have come to depend on their search engines as the volume of content has increased. Yet advanced search functionality has not significantly developed in years. Poor matches and overwhelming search results remain a problem for users. Perhaps the standard search pattern deserves a new look. A progressive disclosure approach can enable users to use precision advanced search techniques to refine their searches and pinpoint the desired results. Fig. 1: A typical separation of standard and advanced search (Yahoo!). The design discourages use of advanced search. Why most people don’t use advanced search Despite its name, advanced search has not advanced very far. Fig. 2: Google’s advanced search is still complicated. Who does use advanced search? Other approaches to search Let’s take a quick look at other search innovations from the last decade. Fig. 4: amazon.com’s approach to tagging a product 1. Custom Search Engine - Site search and more.