Google Adds Ability To See Datasets – iProgrammer

Google has released a search option that can be used to look for datasets and to get access to the data quickly based on the search results.

The option is based on Dataset Search, a search engine that was designed specifically for dataset, and which has indexed 45 million datasets from 13,000 websites including government, scientific, and commercial datasets.

The new facility means you can click on any of the top three results of a search to go to the repository that hosts the dataset, or there’s a More datasets option if you want to look further.

The new version of Dataset search has more features than were available in the beta version. You can now filter the results based on the types of dataset that you want (e.g., tables, images, text), or whether the dataset is available for free from the provider. If a dataset is about a geographic area, you can see the map.

Dataset Search shows users essential metadata about datasets and previews of the data where available. Dataset…