Finally, Google's show options features that have been out since the start of the summer got some coverage today by two substantial sources, Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Blog and Tom Krazit with CNET.
The CNET article is just an announcement of the new features. Nice to see a news source pick up what has been quietly floating around on bloggers minds for some time now.
Danny's article is an in depth review of the joys, features, and frustrations of this new offering from Google. It covers all of the areas covered in the show more features, whereas our post focused on Google's new time features and their benefits to the knowledge worker.
In my mind, what will be really interesting is to watch how far Google goes in publicizing the show options features. You would think putting the link right on top of the results would help, but still, most people we talk to did not notice it was there.
All the effort that Google is spending on the show options feature shows that, as Marissa Mayer said, "Search is an unsolved problem."
With Google's advanced search options, and some training, I think there could be time when we can all feel like search is solved, without resorting to some semantic search engine that would require us to enter a paragraph of text to provide relevant results.
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