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While studying for my Psychology class, the textbook made a claim that most people could not remember all the details on a penny, even though they’d seen them thousands of times in their life. Of course, I disagreed, and did what anybody would do. I sketched what I could remember, and then I did a search.

I decided to use the main search because it’s more accessible– I don’t have an image search plugin for my Firefox search bar. So I entered “penny” and I was off.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that Google was already sure that I was there to see pictures of pennies. I’m not sure how they knew, but they were right. Here’s what I saw:

Search for penny

So why doesn’t Live do this? Is it just the lack of universal search functionality that Google has implemented? Or do they also lack the data and/or logic to determine that many people searching for “penny” may be interested in seeing pictures?

* Disclaimer: I say that many people searching for “penny” are probably interested in seeing pictures, but I don’t know for sure. Maybe Google is wrong, and I’m also a fluke…