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Friday, February 23. 2007

71 New Search Keywords In Google

It's not perfect, but hey, it's new. Google accepts all kind of new search words. Type employees and a name of a company in Google.  Now you know: Yahoo has more employees then Google. Says who? Wikipedia. Google recognizes the keywords from the info box on many pages. But that's not all.

What was a label of popgroup Queen? Google's answers Queen - Label: Parlophone and links to Amazon in the UK (but it doesn't say sponsored link).  Ever wonder what genre Slayer is?

If you want to know what is the religion of India, Google suggests you to visit .. Yahoo for the answer. Ever wondered what my time zone is? The language in Canada? Now you know. The internet TLD of Tokelau? Yup, still .tk. But who says so? Google quotes Arthistoryclub.com, but this site based it's information on the CIA World Factbook of 2004.

 Sometimes the information is from 2003 or older, sometimes it isn't complete: IBM is there, Indian Railways not. So how does Google decide which source to use? I counted over 100 different sources. It appears Google is simply parsing the "Infobox_Company" from the Wikipedia  and other similar templates from other online sources, thanks Frank for pointing this out to me.

Here's a full list of all commands I found. Use them for countries, companies and pop groups.

Age structure
Airports
Area
Birth rate
Capital
Climate
Coastline
Constitution
Currency
Dependent areas
Diplomatic representation from the US
Economy
Employees
Environment - current issues
Environment - international agreements
Ethnic groups
Executive branch
Exports
Flag description
Founded
Genre
Geographic coordinates
Geography - note
Government
Head of state
Headquarters
heliport
HIV/AIDS - deaths
Illicit Drugs
Imports
Independence
Industries
Inflation rate
International organization participation
Internet TLD
Internet users
Judicial branch
Key People
Label
Labor force
Land use
Language
Legal system
Legislative branch
Literacy
Map Reference
Maritime claims
Military Branches
Music:
National hazards
National holiday
Nationality
Natural resources
Population below poverty line
Political parties and leaders
Political pressure groups and leaders
Prime Minister
Products
Public Debt
Radios
Railways
Religion
Revenue
Slogan
Televisions
Time Zone
Terrain
Trading Partners
Unemployment rate

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Nice find!
#1 John Delston on 2007-02-16 12:03 (Reply)
Too bad. Not all keyword are working anymore.
#1.1 Henk van Ess (Link) on 2007-05-26 18:43 (Reply)
It looks like in many of those cases Google is just piggy-backing on Wikipedia (human edited search). Very interesting...
#2 Josh (Link) on 2007-05-26 11:41 (Reply)
Many of those commands don't work any longer. I wonder if Google took them down due to quality problems. I also see that Wiki doesn't have Infobox_Company in the page source for the Google wiki.

Google COOP allows for users to contribute this information directly to the search engine. The only snag is that you need to subscribe...
#3 Local Businesses Online (Link) on 2007-06-01 16:35 (Reply)

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Welcome to Search Bistro. My name is Henk van Ess (recent interview). My personal site is called Voelspriet, (Dutch) visited by search aficionados like myseIf. I am an internet trainer and consultant for radio, TV and newspapers in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain.  I trained over 1000 reporters in the practical use of information technology. I also teach internet research & digital journalism at the Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Erasmusuniversiteit in Rotterdam en de Katholieke Hogeschool in Mechelen (Belgium).  I am a former head of internet at www.ad.nl and publish two websites about internet research, www.voelspriet.nl (Dutch) en www.searchbistro.com (English). I am a board member of the Dutch-Flemish association of investigating journalists VVOJ, the host of the last Global Investigative Journalism Conference in 2005 in Amsterdam.

This weblog started June 1 2005 and was slashdotted the same day after revalations about humans & Google. Search Bistro is not a daily blog about myself, but a slow blog & mixed bag of search news from visitors of Voelspriet, things I found out myself and tips from you - just mail me. This blog was dead for almost a year (opposite to my career), but started again in May 2007.