While looking for more information on the first half of this post, I stumbled across Google Experimental Labs. This is the page where Google posts ongoing projects and solicits feedback from online users. On of their current projects is an update to their search feature. This update will allow users to have more control over the way they search for and interpret data on the internet.

The new search feature adds three new tabs to the traditional search: Info, Timeline and Map. This allows users to search for data, then stipulate specific measurements or information they’re looking for. After that, they can find data from a given month in a given year or go to a google map of key locations related to their search.

With the pool of human knowledge growing at expanding rates and the internet ballooning with knowledge, it becomes increasingly important for us to be able to find the information we want and to be able to interpret and express that data in meaningful ways. Will this be enough to help us better search through the mass of information out there or is it just a better mousetrap? Are you as curious as I am for the answer to those questions? Well, unless you’re interested in bioinformatics conferences, Thomas Jefferson or Koalas, you’ll have to wait until whenever Google gets around to launching this new feature.