bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/20/2008
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A new feature lets Google users change the results they see for specific Google searches and revisit their changes and comments later.
googleblog.blogspot.com - 11/21/2008
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
Have you ever wanted to mark up Google
search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the...
trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it. Or ...
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Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own
daringfireball.net - 11/20/2008
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daringfireball.net —
Google’s just-released and much-publicized update to their Google
Mobile iPhone app features some very clever interaction design...
for the voice search feature. There is an on-screen button you can tap to initiate a voice search manually, but, as ...
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★ Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs
techcrunch.com - 11/21/2008
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techcrunch.com —
Bucket tests and experimental products are one thing.
But to mess with the real Google search is...
serious stuff. Why did they do it? Google’s overall search share has grown substantially this year (and all other years since it went live). ...
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Google, It Wasn’t Broke
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Google's SearchWiki Set For Roll Out
Google Watch —
... Google's search engine guru Marissa Mayer told Brad Stone of The New York Times SearchWiki comments and re-rankings will have no affect on the Google algorithm and how it ranks sites for the general Google audience. ...
Google allows users to change search results
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... all notes for this SearchWiki” link.
Video demo from Google to follow. If it looks familiar, it’s because screenshots of SearchWiki have leaked before with rumors that Google was testing a Digg or Reddit competitor. At the time of writing I’m not seeing SearchWiki yet although it is supposed to be available by now, so hang in there if you can’t see it yet.
(img: The NY Times)
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Google Gets Wikified
BIA/Kelsey Blog —
The Google personalized search developments that we wrote about in July have been launched.
Tweak Your Google Search Results as You Like with SearchWiki
Profy —
... I myself only rarely have to do a repeated search for the same keyword but I can see this functionality being helpful as research has shown that 40% of all searches are duplicate queries they have already made before at least once. So having a customized page of results for an issue you often need to return to may definitely be a good idea. ...
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Google SearchWiki
battellemedia.com 11/21/2008 —
So here we go - Google is jumping into the social media search world. "SearchWiki" is Google's answer to the question "Why can't I make search work the way I want it to work, and share/learn from others doing the same thing?"
But one wonders ...
Google SearchWiki
googlesystem.blogspot.com 10/29/2008 — Google's experiment that allows users to vote and annotate search results is back and this time it has a name: Google SearchWiki. Justin Hileman is one of the lucky people who has access to the experimental feature: "Things are a bit smoother this ...
Defending Google
buzzmachine.com 11/17/2008 — Tuesday night, I’m joining in an NPR Intelligence Squared debate - Oxford format - on the motion, Google violates its “don’t be evil” motto . I’m speaking against - surprise, surprise. Esther Dyson and and Jim Harper of ...
Google SearchWiki Launched
googlesystem.blogspot.com 11/21/2008 — 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's recognizable by the visual clutter ...
Why Google Employees Quit
techcrunch.com 1/18/2009 — In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying ...
Which Google Products Make Money?
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alleyinsider.com 1/8/2009 — Insiders credit Google CFO Patrick Pichette -- who when he joined the company said he intended to "feed the winners," and "starve the losers" -- with bringing new disicipline to company. One told us that Patrick has been "taking on a lot of the ...
The cost of First Click Free
roughtype.com 10/21/2008 — The web you see when you go through Google's search engine is no longer the web you see when you don't go through Google's search engine. In a note on my previous post, The Centripetal Web, Seth Finkelstein points to Philipp Lenssen's discussion of a ...
Google Press Center: Press Release
google.com 11/11/2008 — Google Unwraps the Google Pack Free Software Package Offers Users One Stop to Discover, Install and Maintain a Wide Range of Essential PC Programs CES, LAS VEGAS, Nev., January 6, 2006 Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced Google Pack beta, a ...
Google's virtual world Lively to die next month —
SFGate: Technology 11/20/2008
Lively, a virtual reality service from Google Inc., is dying. The company plans to shut down the service at the end of the year, reflecting Lively's inability to stand out from the rest of the virtual reality crowd. The pack of faux worlds is led by ...