Google opens up a Dangerous Doorway

I appreciate the fact that all these are viewable on one page, and I know that I can turn some of these on or off. It's still terribly busy for a search results page. As surprising as this is to me, I actually like Bing's results page[2] for this better (and it also includes real-time results).

[1] http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&tbo=1... [2] http://www.bing.com/search?q=jonas+brothers&go=&form...

I think that the author is correct in that real-time results can easily lead to gaming the google search results even more than they are currently being gamed. However I think the all-caps, exclamation points, and child predators are a bit much.

The problem is that Google is struggling to remain relevant as the web moves increasingly to more dynamic content. Google was built on a system of ranking static content -- without some kind of metadata filtering the web was simply too much for people to understand back in 98. It's simply not enough to grab all the dynamic stuff you can out there and throw it at the users.

Google can't be just about data, even though that's what they want. It's much more important for them to rank data than simply collect it. That's what made them strong in the first place.