News: Google unveils Search Globe

Google has launched Search Globe, a new WebGL-powered, 3D visual representation of what Google users from around the world are searching for.

Search Globe was created by the Google Data Arts Team and the company said that it hoped this latest project would serve as inspiration for others to get creative when using the net.

“When you’re searching on Google, people all over the globe are searching at the same time, in hundreds of different languages,” Johanna Wright, director of Search Product Management for Google, stated in a blogpost.

“With the new Search Globe, you can see what one day of Google searches around the world looks like.”

Within Search Globe the height of the bars indicates search volume within a region, with the colours representing the language of the majority of search queries, within an area on the globe.

The search giant has launched this new Search Globe via its Chrome Experiments site, which it employs to showcase creative web experiments that have been put together and submitted by “talented artists and programmers from around the world”. These have mostly been created using the latest open technologies, such as HTML5 and WebGL.

This isn’t the only data project of its kind, since Population Globe, also brought to life by the Google Data Arts Team, presents a visual representation (also a 3D WebGL-powered globe) of the world’s population in 1990, 1995 and 2000.

Google unveils Search Globe

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