Google Squared and Our Own Next Steps
Google Squared is a new Google search feature. The question for me is how we can use our own “proactive integration” to make this an even more powerful knowledge management tool? By proactive integration I mean the personal combination of information or knowledge into a new idea or understanding. When we read a variety of reports and come to our own conclusion about overall trends, for example, that is proactive integration.
Google Blogoscoped provides a nice review, but the basics:
- Your search is presented in spreadsheet form: Items matching the search are presented in the first column, some other columns may automatically appear (I did a search of “Management Journals” — image, description, ISSN, telephone, publisher were automatically added)
- You can add different columns (e.g., I added rank and peer reviewed)
- You can delete results that don’t fit and then ask for more instances to be added
- Each column provides a link to its source, and the confidence around its value
Google Squared gives us the opportunity to either blindly collect a spreadsheet of information, or to carefully craft searches that help us create new insights.
I haven’t had a chance to play with Wolfram Alpha. How do you think it compares in terms of pushing for our own deep and active thinking?
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