Google’s Wonder Wheel Experiment

Want to participate in one of Google's user interface experiments? Google Blogoscoped tells you how to grant yourself access to the Google Wonder Wheel. Go to google.com, paste the Javascript into the address bar, and take the wonder wheel for a spin. The wheel displays a circle with your keyword, connected to other circles with related terms. There's also a timeline view, and options to show longer snippets and more images for each search result. You can also use filter the results on type (recent, videos, forums and reviews), as well as freshness (time and date). The related terms aren't based on Google's Latent Semantic Analysis (LSI), which you can access by prefixing your keyword with the tilda (~) operator. Google then expands you search with semantically (actually derived from statistics) related concepts. I wonder why they decided not to fuse the two related terms initiatives. (via http://thenoisychannel.com)