You may have heard of Google Squared. It’s a new service in development from Google that, as Wikipedia puts it, “extracts structured data from across the web and presents its results in spreadsheet-like format.” Basically, it returns your results in a list-like format with some additional descriptive columns.
Trying it out, we naturally entered some book-related queries. And, if you assume that Google has compiled a database of the world’s knowledge and uses that to generate its results, then these must be – definitively – the “best books” and “best novels” ever.
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Catch-22
- Animal Farm
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Goodnight Moon
- Curious George
- Gravity’s Rainbow
- Gravity’s Rainbow
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- The Sound and the Fury
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- The Lord of the Rings
- To The Lighthouse
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Not bad for something computer-generated.
(Google has been known to personalize and regularly adjust its results, so your lists may vary.)
