Researchers at Microsoft’s labs in Redmond, WA, have released an online game to help fine-tune search results says Technology Review.
Called Page Hunt, the game presents players with web pages and asks them to guess the queries that would produce the page within its first five results. Players score 100 points if the page is no.1 [...]
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Users in 27 countries will be able to broadcast their location to others constantly, using Google Latitude. Friends’ whereabouts can be tracked on a Google map, either from a handset or from a personal computer. There is also an iGoogle widget. Controls allow users to select who receives the information or to go offline at [...]
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Uptil now, if anyone wanted a To-do list in their Gmail (fairly useful, given that lots of people have their Gmail account continually open in one of their browser windows), they would have to download and install the Remember the milk plugin for Firefox, but not anymore.
Now, Gmail has its own To-do list, which you [...]
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Rediff.com has launched WebInMail, a new service that would fetch web pages for users to allow them to read online content in their Inbox. Targeted largely at people who’s office regulations do not allow them to access external websites, this is quite an interesting concept, which deserves to be watched.
To use the service, all ones [...]
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Gmail has launched about 30 themes for users, to allow them to personalize the look and feel of their Gmail experience. As the Gmail blog explains:
We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your [...]
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Gmail and Google App subscribers can now choose to speak with friends on a video screen and simultaneously instant message them in a Google Chat box. As the Google Blog states:
Just click on the new “Video & more” menu in a Gmail chat window and select “Start video chat” or “Start voice chat.” You can [...]
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Travel portal MakeMyTrip.com has launched Distance Meter, a rather interesting tool that helps users sort hotels based on the distance from a particular location. According to MakeMyTrip, the new feature is currently available for all major cities in the country like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai and Ahmedabad. However, it gives the aerial distance, [...]
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Almost a year ago, Google unveiled an experimental feature that allows users to edit their search results. Now, it seems that Google is finally readying to roll out the feature with a new name: SearchWiki.
SearchWiki gives users the ability to move search results up if they think the result is more relevant, or hide results [...]
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When you search on Google, you would now also get access to scanned documents in PDF format – this is a major leap for Google when you consider that scanned documents are typically images, and do not contain any text data. Google has apparently been working on on this using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for [...]
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A recent patent application filed by Google, might just be the key to monetizing social networks better.
By ranking the most influential people on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, Google is applying the same approach to social networks it has used to dominate the online search business. If this works, it may finally make [...]
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