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New Interactive Google Search
Do you ever think of adding , deleting or commenting your google search result ?
Now google pays way for it.
Today google launches SearchWiki , a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users. It store your changes in your Google Account. If you are wondering if you are signed in, you can always check by noting if your username appears in the upper right-hand side of the page.
The changes you make only affect your own searches. But SearchWiki also is a great way to share your insights with other searchers. You can see how the community has collectively edited the search results by clicking on the "See all notes for this SearchWiki" link.
Watch google lead engineer, Amay, demonstrate a few ways to use SearchWiki in this short video:
This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic, giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives. Google have been testing bits and pieces of SearchWiki for some time through live experiments, and it incorporated much of its learning into this release. It constantly striving to improve users' search experience, and this is yet another step along the way.
Google chrome Review
Hi reader , since i was busy with my class exam it took me more time to write my reviews on go
ogle chrome. Yet another BETA product from google . This time its fast , elegant browser . I almost played a day with chrome before publishing my first review on it … Here it goes….
Small sized installation file - The install was small 468k so the download was fast and the install took about 15 seconds so in well under a minute I went from “click” to “play”.
Bug while importing bookmarks first time - I was happy when the installation process offered to import all my bookmarks from Firefox - something Firefox users like me will be sure to appreciate. But unfortunately it did not work for me at all: It warned me that I had to close Firefox first for import to happen.
Importing setting - - I did as advised and clicked the “next” button - but no matter how many times I clicked that button no import happened so I had to cancel it finally.
Finally had my bookmarks imported from Firefox (which includes saved passwords and browsing history - since both are incredibly important for the majority of users, I am so sure this functionality must determine probability of people actually migrating).
Elegant Style browser - Finally i had my browser up and running . I have to admit, it is quite a strange feeling for me not to have any menu at all . It gives me feeling like viewing browser in full Screen view but actually its orginal view .
URL Box serves all purpose - This is one of the cool feature.Ever hated having to enter search terms in a separate edit box in the browser? Not any more, all the features are integrated into the single address/search/history/etc bar.
Every Tab itself a browser ( Crash Control ) - This is other cool feature . If u have 4 tabs opened and you want the third tab alone to be opened in separate browser , just drag that tab alone outside ,that’s it . This is achieved by running Tabs independently in the browser , so if one app crashes it won’t take anything else down i.e Each tab runs it’s own process ( you can see this in your task Manager ).
Incognito Mode - This feature is almost similar to the private browsing feature that came up with safari browser. Pages viewed will not appear in the browser history and they won’t leave any other traces.
Safe Browsing - Google Chrome warns you if you’re about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website.
Final word : To conclude
” Atlast firefox found its competitor . Browserwar begins again .”Google's Beta concept - safeway to run product/service without user criticism.
Gmail? Excellent , superb, it rocks! This what every users say about it . But have you ever wondered why “Gmail or anyother gmail product or service is still in BETA!” What does BETA mean to Google? Before discussing it lets see what the word “Beta” actually stands for .
“Beta describes the state of an application during its development, when it has more or less full functionality but is still being tested.
During Beta, bugs can still occur so users of the software are made aware of this. New functionality can still be introduced though it’s not that common at this stage.
Following beta, the application is considered almost ready for launch. It becomes a release candidate and then goes through a phase of extensive testing prior to release”.
But how does Google decide whether an product/service is stable and out of BETA? It seems, Google considers BETA as a final release for many of its products and services.
Have you ever seen Google BETA when the company formed in 1998? See this Google BETA (1998) page from Web Archive
At least Google.com is not in BETA now!
Funny Error message to turn user attention:
“Bad, bad server. No donut for you. Unfortunately, the orkut.com server has acted out in an unexpected way. Hopefully, it will return to its helpful self if you try again in a few minutes. It’s likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming months. We apologize for the inconvenience and for our server’s lack of consideration for others.“
Those are the common error message when the gmail server encounters heavy traffic. In this way google developers show their sense of humor and turn the user attention ( Good Strategy ) .
Eventhough Google keeps rolling out new features in Gtalk , Gmail , orkut etc but someone needs to draw Google’s Attention and say on fixing some bugs users experience with it.