Google Images Safe Search Switch Changed
Google image search made toggling the SafeSearch option a tiny bit easier, by including the settings switch menu right on the results page (instead of linking to the settings page, where one has to toggle a radio button option and hit a save button).* SafeSearch is Google’s adult content filter that can be turned off in most countries, though interestingly enough not in (at least) Google China. *I believe this is rather new, but don’t know when exactly it was added. [By Philipp Lenssen |...
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Gmail With Drag & Drop
Drag and drop has come to Gmail: you can now drag a message by its left-hand grid, and move it into a label/ folder to the left side. Also, you can now re-arrange labels via drag & drop. [Thanks Cookie Lee and Niranjan!] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Gmail With Drag & Drop | Comments] [Advertisement] Google books at eBay: background info on Google, AdWords, AdSense, Blogger and more…Read more here:Gmail With Drag &...
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Bing Starts to Get Real (Time)
I’ve been complaining that nearly no search engines surface real time data (for now, that’s Twitter, but Facebook is coming soon enough, and there will be tons more). In fact, I complained to Microsoft about this well before the launch of Bing, and then complained some more when Twitter results were not surfaced in initial beta versions of the service. Man, I’m grumpy lately, eh? Well, that’s changing. Sort of. From a Bing blog post today: There has been much discussion...
Read MoreGoogle v. Facebook? What We Learn from Twitter.
Last week I wrote a post in which I opined a bit about Facebook search. In it I wrote: Facebook is way more than its newsfeed, and its search play is key to proving that value, and extending it….No doubt building Facebook search today is akin to building Google ten years ago – bigger, most likely, in terms of data, algorithmic, and platform challenges. If only I had waited a few days, I could have pointed to Fred’s piece in Wired, out this week. He profiles the ongoing feud...
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Google Adds Facebook Friends to Results
I’m not sure how new this is, but when a Facebook user’s profile is returned in Google’s search results, you can now see the user’s location (or network) and a random selection of their friends, as shown on their public profile. I’m not seeing any special markup in the Facebook profile page, but could this be Google’s “Rich Snippets” feature in action, as announced at this year’s Searchology conference? [Thanks Luke!] [By Tony Ruscoe | Origin: Google Adds Facebook Friends to...
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