Use Google Squared for college search?

Parents Forum
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<p>Maybe I’m just a geek so no one will share my enthusiasm, but my son just introduced me to Google Squared. I love it. </p>

<p>[Google</a> Squared](<a href=“http://www.google.com/squared]Google”>http://www.google.com/squared)</p>

<p>Type in anything to be squared…Liberal arts colleges, Pennsylvania colleges, dogs, or lawn mowers, and viola…instant spreadsheet! </p>

<p>You can then add columns for features which it will fill in, such as tuition, or ranking or size. You can also save it, export it, add your own columns. </p>

<p>I’m sure it’s far from perfect, but could be a fun tool and maybe a good starting point.</p>

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<p>Woah! That’s great! I tried cheese squared.</p>

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<p>Oh dear…that was fun. A whole new way to waste time. It can be extremely useful, but also really funny.</p>

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<p>So disappointed…google squared just pretends to give me a square but never finishes it.
It says done at the bottom of my page but …no square.
What am I doing wrong?</p>

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<p>Sometimes you have to put in 5 items before it’ll start squaring. For example, when I put in “cheese” I didn’t get a square. It asked me to list 5 examples and once I did, I got a very nice square that listed my 5 cheeses, a lot of other cheeses and then columns of info about each cheese.</p>

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<p>Thanks, I will try that!</p>

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<p>Oh I tried comedians and it did a great job. I wonder if as more people use it and help it build squares, it will acquire more knowledge to do it automatically? So like if fifteen people help it create a cheese square, will it do it on its own eventually?</p>

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<p>13 more people to do a cheese square are needed then…</p>

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<p>That was fun but not very accurate. I put in, “Colleges for B students” and got this [Colleges</a> for B students - Google Squared](<a href=“http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=Colleges+for+B+students]Colleges”>http://www.google.com/squared/search?q=Colleges+for+B+students) Some of the colleges included in the square are Harvard, Swarthmore and Cal Tech.</p>

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<p>Cool app and worth starting a square , seems it does need the user to tweak it–however very nice to begin a search. I tried collegiate sports programs, and then viticulture.</p>