Google not doing so well with the Chinese New Year
Google's coping with the New Year better that Microsoft's Zune did. Phew.
In particular I was curious to see how well dates in the onebox coped with the new date - and they all do well (most of them don't mention the year anyway).
A search for the Chinese New Year is the weakest result. It's not wrong. It's just old. It's about a year old at this point. Google's onebox still serves up when the 2008 Chinese New Year was. I would say a week after that date the onebox would have been better used to tell me when the 2009 New Year is (Jan 26th; the Year of the Ox).
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It certainly makes me wonder when this onebox result will update. Anyone want to bet that it'll update after the 2009 Chinese New Year?
In particular I was curious to see how well dates in the onebox coped with the new date - and they all do well (most of them don't mention the year anyway).
A search for the Chinese New Year is the weakest result. It's not wrong. It's just old. It's about a year old at this point. Google's onebox still serves up when the 2008 Chinese New Year was. I would say a week after that date the onebox would have been better used to tell me when the 2009 New Year is (Jan 26th; the Year of the Ox).
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0mSxUthxKGI/SVzEANK3tII/AAAAAAAAA_k/chiXloLrrkA/s400/chinese-new-year1.png)
It certainly makes me wonder when this onebox result will update. Anyone want to bet that it'll update after the 2009 Chinese New Year?