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“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
“It turned the whole web into a tidy spreadsheet — order out of chaos, gone too soon”
Google Squared extracted structured data from across the web and served it back as a spreadsheet, complete with columns of common attributes for whatever you searched. Born at Google's New York office and launched on Google Labs in June 2009, it was the first significant effort by Google to understand information on the web and present it in new ways. Nathania Johnson of Search Engine Watch called it quite possibly o
Announced in May 2009 partly in response to the launch of Wolfram Alpha, Squared lived barely two years. When Google began phasing out Google Labs, Squared was shut down on September 5, 2011. It left behind a quiet legacy: a first, ambitious attempt to teach search engines to see the web as structured data rather than just links.
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“Killed to make room for Google+, which didn't outlive it by much either”
“The first phone we stroked instead of pressed — it never stood a chance of being the last.”
“It put the future in our pockets, then got pocketed itself.”