Google adds quotations to search

The Google News blog reports that Google has added personal quotes to search results.

It goes like this:

Search for the name of a well known person.

Google will now try to identify quotations made by that person that are found on web pages.

They will present one such quotation above the regular search results, like this:

Google Quotes

If you click on the speaker’s name you will get a list of more quotations.

Google News Blog.

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Posted on Sunday 20 April 2008
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