Comme de nombreuses personnes ont pu le remarquer Google était Down ou très lent durant cette journée du jeudi 14 mai. Ce qui semble être un problème mondial à été reconnu par Google et on attend d’avantages d’informations sur les raisons des problèmes rencontrés.

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We’ve been hearing reports all morning of outages across the Googleverse, and while no one at Lifehacker HQ has been affected, that doesn’t mean no one else has. Google’s App Status Dashboard is showing that Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Sites have all had issues today, but we’ve received reports that Google News and even Google Search have had their problems. Elsewhere, Twitter’s full of #googlefail complaints, and ZDNet has a close analysis of what’s been going on. It’s never easy to tell how many of our readers are affected by these outages, so for curiosity’s sake, here’s a quick poll:
Is/Was a Google Service Down for You Today?(online surveys)

Google vient tout juste de lancer de nouvelles options de recherche à son moteur (pour l’instant sur la version .com mais bientôt étendues aux versions locales). Parmi ces options la possibilité d’obtenir une visualisation graphique des liens entre différentes thématiques, la possibilité de ciblé certaines catégories d’articles (les tests de matériel par exemple) ou encore une option de selection de la période de création de l’article.

Source: Google, nouvelles options de recherche via Lifehacker

The Google improvements we saw unofficially opened to some users about two months ago have gone official, letting searchers see timelines and “Wonder Wheels,” filter for recent results, and seek out forums and reviews.

Google’s honchos unveiled the new “Search Options” at a Searchology event, one that coincides with the two year anniversary of the Universal Search unveiling that put brief looks at images, news, and other Google-powered search results on the main page. The new Search Options, along with richer “snippets” underneath results that can show reviews and specially-formatted information, should start showing up for most users immediately, but further down the line are more interesting experiments.

Google Squared will show up on users’ Google Labs pages later this month. What is it, exactly? Well, Google’s VP for Search Products says:

Unlike a normal search engine, Google Squared doesn’t find webpages about your topic - instead, it automatically fetches and organizes facts from across the Internet. We’ll be opening it up to users later this month on Google Labs.

Finally, here’s a video clip showing how the newest Search Options change what you find when you’re searching around:

Do the Search Options change how useful Google is to you, or are they just (easily hidden) sidebar clutter? Tell us how you see it in the comments.