Have you seen the experimental set creator from Google? You can see the very application on the Google Labs webpage. The sets application ostensibly takes three words from the user and finishes the set of items. I have been toying with the application, trying to find a practical use for it. At first I thought, it would make for a great keyword finder, but there are already plenty of those out there. Google Sets would have to do more than that to tickle my fuse.

What Does Google Sets Do?
We write in sets quite often, or at least I do. When I’m drilling home a point about why I blog, I may mention five to ten items that relate to the activity. This litany creates a set. Sets can be beneficial when targeting keywords in SERPs, building ad campaigns around products or services, or emphasizing statistics.

We often times find sets in statistical form. We have a set of numbers that correlate to site traffic. The words that help us interpret those numbers also come as a set, like bounce rate, visitors, pageviews, sources, referrals, and traffic. So what does this all mean?

We live in a world of sets. Affiliate marketers work on narrowing their sets of keywords so they get the most boom for their buck. Bloggers in general speak of sets quite often. When we write, we can look to tools like Google sets to complete the holes in our own lists.

Practical Use
I don’t think the Google Sets application will be as exciting as Obama at a Clinton rally. However, it can be useful.

Our own writing may contain sets at one point or another, and the Google Sets application may be just the thing we need to springboard that set to completion. I know I have struggled to think of just one or two more items.

The next time I’m struggling to think of the completion to hamburger, fries, and coke I won’t have to run to McDonald’s to figure out cheese and heart attack.