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Publishing Fail - February 22nd, 2010

I guess the hint wasn’t good enough. I’m sure this will be fixed in an hour or two, which may or may not break the link, but here it is anyway :) Edit: They pulled the article about half an hour later.

Tags: fail, news, seattle
Posted in fail, lol, news

 

Visual Searching: Google Image Swirl - December 30th, 2009

I happened across a wonderful surprise tonight as I went to fetch something using Google’s Image Search. Right there on the front page, sat an invitation to Explore images using Google Image Swirl. Almost Ready Google talked about this back in mid-november and even had a rocky preview available for users to try out. Afterwards [...]

Tags: google, search, swirl, win
Posted in google, news

 

Google's Christmas Gift to Everyone: Charity - December 21st, 2009

My inbox had a nice surprise for me tonight; Google floated a Christmas present to Gmail users, and it was nice. I don’t mean like closed-beta nice, or anything of the sort — their gift is $20 million in charity to a laundry-list of both national and international organizations. See the gift here. When Google [...]

Tags: charity, christmas, google, win
Posted in google, international, news

 

Facebook and Privacy: a Neverending Story - December 10th, 2009

It seems they’ll never learn. Yesterday, this pop-up introduced itself to Facebook users across the globe, and it wasn’t to the warmest of welcomes, either. Out of the millions of users who see this pop-up, roughly half can be expected to actually follow through with the indoctrination into new privacy features, while the rest will [...]

Tags: facebook, fail, privacy
Posted in fail, news, social-media, social-networking

 

Google Search to Incorporate Real-Time Data - December 7th, 2009

Yes, they’ve finally done it. After months of talk about incorporating the mounds of real-time data to which Google has access, they’re finally piping it all into their own search results. The sources they listed are some pretty big names: Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, and Jaiku, among others — and that’s not counting the major [...]

Tags: bing, facebook, google, myspace, news, twitter, win
Posted in google, news, social-media, social-networking, twitter

 

Google Search Now More Personalized - December 4th, 2009

Google’s been tailoring search results for quite some time now, and their new Web History, a considerable upgrade to the venerable Search History, has made far deeper personalization a reality. Now they’ve taken it one step further — Google’s enabled personalized search for users who aren’t signed in to Google. Personalization without Google sign-in is [...]

Tags: google, news, search, web history
Posted in google, news

 

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