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Where is Google Caffeine?
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010The much hyped new search tool by Google called Caffeine, which was also touted as Google’s secret project, after an initial preview in August last year is showing no signs of a launch though several months have passed. It was considered to be an updated version of the search engine for which Google created a sandbox at www2.sandbox.google.com and asked people to give feedback. Though it created quite an interest but the delay in its launch has made people grow skeptical and there is no final announcement from Google regarding its going LIVE yet.
As coming from Google, it was tested and compared to the older version on parameters such as Speed, Accuracy, Index Size and Temporal Relevancy. As it seems that Google Caffeine will still take time, let us undertake a quick recap on how it faired on the above mentioned scales:
Speed: It checks the ability of a search engine to load results. In comparison Google Caffeine was found to show results faster than the older version.
Accuracy: Accuracy is related to the effectiveness of search engine to show precise results for search terms. Google Caffeine gain scored higher as it showed more accurate results which were quite in sync with what the user would like to get.
Temporal Relevancy: It relates to the ability of search engine to incorporate breaking news. It was found to be the same.
Index Size: It counts the number of results captured by search engines for particular search. Again Google Caffeine scored high leaving behind the older version.
Though it performed better but the time taken by Google to make it active may derail the interest of users as many have already started asking “Where is Google Caffeine?” we hope that Google puts arrest to all speculations and give users the opportunity to use the enhanced version.
