from the Google Blog:
Starting today, we’re deploying a new technology that can better understand associations and concepts related to your search, and one of its first applications lets us offer you even more useful related searches (the terms found at the bottom, and sometimes at the top, of the search results page).
When you do a [...]
via Techcrunch:
Notice that title tag for my Twitter profile page?
It reads “Robin Wauters (robinwauters) on Twitter” where it used to say “Twitter / robinwauters”. For the TechCrunch Twitter account, it used to read “Twitter / TechCrunch” (only the username) instead of now “Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) on Twitter” (full name + username).
Minor tweak, you say? Mundane [...]
from jkOnTheRun:
A small but welcome feature should be in the Labs section if you use Google’s Gmail service. It’s called “Undo Send”, or as I like to call it: the “Uh-Oh” function. Once enabled, you’ll have a five-second window to stop a message from leaving after you hit the Send button. I tested it late [...]
These are my links for November 25th:
Handbrake: HandBrake Media Converter Gets Even Better –
Rumor: Amazon Kindle 2 Might Ruin Christmas By Not Showing Up –
Congratulations and farewell to I Want Sandy –
Official Gmail Blog: Syncing your Google Calendar –
Windows 7 public beta in 2009 … as previously announced – SuperSite Blog [...]
These are my links for November 24th:
Featured Greasemonkey User Script: Hide Google SearchWiki Buttons in Results – If you're finding Google's new SearchWiki ranking buttons are more annoying than useful, you can hide them using this Greasemonkey user script (a definite candidate for a Better Google extension). Are you customizing your results with SearchWiki, or [...]
These are my links for November 22nd from 20:54 to 21:14:
Verizon workers fired over Obama records breach | Wireless – CNET News –
The Associated Press: Father appalled by virtual audience to son’s death –
Apple approves third-party email client for the App Store, violates its own policies – Engadget –
Apple: iPhone Firmware 2.2 [...]
These are my links for November 21st from 12:42 to 12:59:
Google: Google Launches SearchWiki for Custom-Ordered Search Results – Some logged-in Google users are seeing an interesting new feature enabled on their results pages this morning.
jkOnTheRun:iPhone 2.2 software: Street View (iPhones only), Podcast downloads and more – he Apple iPhone keeps getting tweaked through fairly [...]
This looks interesting!
As anticipated last month, Google’s experiment that lets you reorder and annotate search results is now live. Google SearchWiki should be available automatically if you are logged in to a Google account and it can be recognized by the visual clutter added to the search results. [link]
Google SearchWiki
These are my links for November 20th from 15:52 to 15:53:
Microsoft Watch – Web Services & Browser – Why Firefox Won’t Survive Chrome – I love Firefox. It's a remarkably fast and reliable browser. But Mozilla's dirty little public secret has been its dependence on Google search revenue.
Featured IPhone Application: SnapTell Explorer Instantly Looks Up [...]
Cheers to Google for embarking on this ambitious film with Vermilion Films to show the way many parts of the world are still struggling to fight polio; something all but eradicated in our country. I think this is a great idea and congratulations to Google for supporting such a worthy cause. It is important that [...]