Internet giant Google have announced a preview of their new upgraded search engine for developers and web masters to test. While the UI is pretty much the same , there have been quite a few ‘under the hood’ changes. Nicknamed Caffeine, the update is mainly to the algorithms and code base used by the indexing giant. It will allow more relevant results and real-time data to be returned by searches.
You can preview the new search engine by visiting the sandbox at – http://www2.sandbox.google.com
If you would like to test country/language specific results you will need to edit the query parameters
read more at…
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/08/help-test-some-next-generation.html
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/caffeine-update/
Update – 13/08/09 @ 08:48
the sandbox is currently off-line due to server maintenance
Update – 15/08/09 @ 08:48
the sandbox is back up and running
Tags: caffeine, google, search engine