Google Squared was an information extraction and

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product from

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. It was announced on May 12, 2009 in response to the launch of

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and was launched on

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on June 3, 2009. As part of the phasing out of Google Labs, Google Squared was shut down on September 5, 2011. Squared was developed at Google's New York office. It was the first significant effort by Google to understand information on the web and present it in new ways. Google Squared extracted structured data from across the web and presented its results in spreadsheet-like format. Each search query returned a table of search results which has its own set of columns - common attributes that are associated with the topic of a search. Nathania Johnson of

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described Squared as "quite possibly ... one of Google's significant achievements".

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