{"id":1198,"date":"2009-06-03T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T20:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2009-06-03T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T20:27:12","slug":"google-squared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wysz.com\/wyszdom\/2009\/06\/google-squared\/","title":{"rendered":"Google squared"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google Squared<\/a> is now available<\/a> in Google Labs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With Google Squared, you can choose a category of things you’d like to compare (like Colorado ski resorts<\/a>), and then choose which attributes you want to look at for each item. It will automatically populate a few rows and columns for you, but it’s most useful if you really make it your own, and remove rows and columns you don’t want to see, and add rows and columns that you do want.<\/p>\n

For example, right now for [Colorado ski resorts<\/a>] I get columns labeled “Image,” “Description,” “Location,” “Snowmaking,” and “Telephone.” Out of these, I really just want location, so I can hit the “X” on all of the other columns. But I noticed that one of my favorite destinations, Telluride, isn’t in the list. So, in the lower-left of the Square where it says “Add items,” I type in “Telluride” and then click “Add.”<\/p>\n

Now that I have a good list of resorts, I want to get an idea of how much skiing I can get done there. So, in the upper-right of the Square, I add columns for “Longest Run,” “Skiable Area,” “Base Elevation,” and “Summit Elevation.”<\/p>\n

Here’s a video of me running through the above steps:<\/p>\n