| I was one of the (apparently few) people who used Google Sets a lot. Even though its results were often hit-or-miss, there were enough hits for it to be a valuable resource. And unfortunately, I don't know of any comparable alternative. (But please tell me if you do!) Here is the problem it solved: It let you discover members of a set by entering a few members that you already know. For instance, if you enter "terrier," "bulldog," "German shepherd," it might return, "beagle," "poodle," "chihuahua." Obviously, in this example, it would probably be just as easy to Google "list dog breeds." But what if you know a few members of a set ... but don't actually know what the set is, or the proper way to describe the set to a search engine? Or what if the search engine results take you to pages that list some related terms, but you've got to sift through a lot of other content to get to them? That's when Google Sets really came in handy. Edit: I admit, Google has gotten a lot better in recent years at returning this sort of information in search results. And Wolfram does a good job, too. So my need for Sets has decreased, but I still miss it. |
It's part of their spreadhseet now. You type things out and drag the items, like you would numbers to count.
I too missed sets a lot and was very happy to have found that:)