Google Caffeine – It's Sneaky Goodness

Apologies for the lack of posts recently, I’ve been overly busy and am currently working on a post that was meant to publish on Monday, but has been repeatedly sidelined by research and other work. Thanks for not forgetting about me :)

Earlier this week Google went public with its experimental new search engine, lovingly called Caffeine. Mashable has a great write-up on it, so I don’t need to spend much time here to deliver my message.

I love Google Caffeine more than actual caffeine. That’s a serious amount. Seriously.

To nearly everyone who uses it, Google’s revamped search looks just like the old one. To me, it’s a wonderful playground of happiness, where for once I actually rank the index using my own name. This is nothing short of amazing, since I’m constantly plagued by my namesake’s dopplegangers everywhere I go. In the case of search indexing, it’s nearly impossible to beat out some guy who got on American Idol using my name. Granted, it’s his name too, but he was on American Idol and I still have my dignity. Mostly.

So long story short, Google Caffeine goes much more in-depth when hashing out the rankings for its index. The results for any search shift and change on a daily basis, because live-search results are added to the mix, causing a more fluid day-to-day search experience along with providing more relevant data upon request.

[UPDATE]: You can now try this site, which compares the two versions of Google search.

My name is only an example, albeit a good one. Since the first night I discovered this treat, my ranking has changed for the worse already. I’m not holding it against Google, since I’ve been too busy to tweet much lately, or digg much for that matter, so it’s my own fault that I’m already slipping in the rankings. (Both sites do extremely well in Google index rankings)

But that’s the beauty of it, within two days my subtle inactivity has caused slippage. This can mean worlds to searchers wanting fresh information, as opposed to the standard top-ten listing we’ve all begrudgingly gotten used to.

http://www2.sandbox.google.com/

What are you waiting for? Try it yourself!