{"id":1188,"date":"2011-06-16T00:55:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T07:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2011-06-24T00:21:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T07:21:20","slug":"what-is-google-squared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/web-tips-and-tricks\/what-is-google-squared\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Google Squared?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The takeaway:<br \/>\nGoogle Squared displays your search results in a table (aptly named &#8220;squares&#8221;) rather than within a simple list.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/squared.google.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27291%27%20height%3D%27113%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20291%20113%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27291%27%20height%3D%27113%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-squared-logo.png\" alt=\"Google Squared logo\" title=\"Google Squared - A more effective way to search\" width=\"291\" height=\"113\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-full wp-image-1192\" \/><\/a>Using Google Squared is a very cool way to view and organize your search results, arranging  them any way you see fit within a grid.  This is especially helpful when you&#8217;re comparing items for which your searching. You can easily tweak your search by adding additional keywords thereby amending your current table.  <\/p>\n<p>You can save these squares and even share them via Google Docs. <em>*Pretty awesome if you&#8217;re helping your kid with a school report? ;)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a brief overview video from the folks at Google:<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more Read More About This Awesome Google Search Tool--><\/p>\n<p>(narrative a bit gooby, but informative) =)<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" width=\"450\" height=\"286\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27450%27%20height%3D%27286%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20450%20286%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27450%27%20height%3D%27286%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/__INtIXNLmI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Example Search Using Google Squared:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Perhaps you want to know about and compare volcanoes around the world<\/strong>: types, images, where, last eruption, etc ., etc\u2026.  If you were to search normally it would take tons-o-time  gather the info.  But using Google Squared, all you have to do is key in [ volcanoes ] into the search box at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/squared\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/squared<\/a> and click &#8220;Square it&#8221; create a killer table of volcanoes and all attendant info.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Here, I&#8217;ve done it for you:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/squared\/search?q=volcanoes&#038;spell=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.google.com\/squared\/search?q=volcanoes&#038;spell=1<\/a> <\/p>\n<h3>Some of the additional things that you can do to customize your search within Google Squared:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Customize each Square to see only the items and attributes in which you&#8217;re interested<br \/>\n(you can click the X to delete some of the attributes or results you didn&#8217;t want)<\/li>\n<li>See each website that delivered the information in your Square.<\/li>\n<li>Add to your Square by appending new search results (instead of adding rows, 1 by 1)<\/li>\n<li>Save and share Squares with others within Google Docs (working collaboratively can be huge!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can actually help make Google Squared better as it can learn from your additions\/corrections\/deletions.  Over time this helps gradually improve the app for all users, so take the time to clean and correct your work and help make the world a better place.  #payitforward  (at this point the app isn&#8217;t perfect&#8230; so you may encounter a few errors. but still worth using)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you learn something new?  Then why not share it? (below) <\/strong>  =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The takeaway: Google Squared displays your search results in a&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/web-tips-and-tricks\/what-is-google-squared\/\">Continue Reading<span> What is Google Squared?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,70],"tags":[216,214,217,213,220,219,215,218],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-2","category-web-tips-and-tricks","tag-display-search-results-in-grid","tag-displaying-google-searches-more-effectively","tag-disply-search-results-in-table","tag-google-squared","tag-google-squared-explained","tag-how-to-use-google-squared","tag-user-friendly-google-search-results","tag-what-is-google-squared"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1212,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daveworks.net\/web-design-development-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}