Google Launches Y!Q Search 2.0 (beta)

Originally uploaded by Antonescu Razvan.

More than one year after Yahoo launched Y!Q Search, Google launches version 2.0 (like in web 2.0) and calls it Google Related Links. Of course a beta product and worse than the original ideea. Probably another brilliant project from the 20% series.

Most likely is based on the same set of Common Words that are shown in Google Sitemaps in site analysis section or on the Adsense indexing engine. Probably in the near future one of the killer features that will be added will be to allow webmasters to target through html tags only partial content of a page (feature that was from the beginning in Y!Q search).

This would have been a good April Fools joke but unfortunately is real.

More coverage on:

• Solution Watch: Google Labs releases Related Links
• Research Buzz: Google’s Got a New Related Links Feature
• Googlist: 9 Notes on Google Related Links
• Search Engine Journal: Google Related Links Launches For Publishers

Edit:
What seemed to be a hunch is confirmed by a quick test done by seside.net. Google Related Links uses the same boot as Adsense….that’s what I call rocket sience