Posts Tagged ‘Search’
Google in 1407
This is good fun. Take a look at what Google might have looked like in the year 1407.
My favorite has to be the the "Google Earth Flat" link :-)
So, when will we see a 1407'izer, that can take ordinary web pages and 1407'ify them?
Related postsTags: Google, History, Humour, Search
Introducing Google History
On my daily surf I suddenly came across a "search your browsing history" link at Google.
That link took me to google.com/history. Since this is the first time I'm hearing of this, I can only tell you what is written on that page:
View and manage your web activity.
You know that great web site you saw online and now can't find? From now on, you can. With Web History, you can view and search across the full text of the pages you've visited, including Google searches, web pages, images, videos and news stories. You can also manage your web activity and remove items from your web history at any time.Get the search results most relevant to you.
Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you've searched for on Google and which sites you've visited. You might not notice a big impact on your search results early on, but they should steadily improve over time as you use Web History.Follow interesting trends in your web activity.
Which sites do you visit frequently? How many searches did you do between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.? Web History can tell you about these and other interesting trends on your web activity.
I'm gonna take it for a test toast now and see what it is :-)
Update 1
Okay, a quick stare at the Google History site reveals, that Google History as actually active if you have a Google Account. You don't need to activate anything, if you log on to Google History now using your Google Account, you'll see what sites you've visited and what you've searched for while you were logged in.
One question remains: Is that a good or a bad thing? I for one would perhaps prefer, that you'd need to active your Google History.
Related postsTags: Browsing History, Google, Google History, History, Internet, Search
How to search MI5
Phil Bradley shows people how to search the MI5 website, although the MI5 search is currently not working.
Needless to say, he uses Google ;-)
PS: If the MI5 website uses a robots.txt to avoid the search robots crawling the web, I don't assume that the above tip will work…
Related postsTags: Google, MI5, Phil Bradley, Search, Tips
Another social bookmarking service from Google
Duncan Riley at TechCrunch writes that "Google Wants You To Share Stuff".
The method: Google's new service for sharing your favorite content: Shared Stuff.
I haven't really had the time to test it yet (I dragged the Shared Stuff icon to my browser bar — but the pop up window doesn't always load correctly) so give it a spin and see what you think ;-)
Related postsTags: Bookmarks, Google, Online applications, Search
Tip: Searchmash.com - Google's playground
I read about it somewhere a long time ago and used it for some time but then forgot about it again.
But just now I remembered it, and thought it was worth to be shared :-)
The search engine Searchmash.com is Google's online playground when it comes to search. It has a lot of AJAX (live page refreshes) and nifty stuff, so be sure to check it out!
Working with search recognition in WordPress
I'm currently working on my master project at the Danish School of Journalism where I'm doing a communications assignment for a café and nightclub in Copenhagen named Nadsat.
A part of my project is to create a new website for Nadsat which I have chosen to be, of course, powered by WordPress.
As I've included a search that also searches in pages in WordPress (by using Dan Cameron's Search Everything plugin) since WordPress doesn't do this by default, I got an idea:
Why not have some sort of recognition to save people to some time when they're searching for information on the site? Let's say that someone searches Nadsat.dk for "effekten", which is a collective throwing parties at Nadsat, why not save them time by telling them where they can read more about Effekten (Danish for "the effect")?
So here's what you do. You take the code provided below and use it somewhere in you Search Results page (found in WordPress admin ==> Presentation ==> Theme Editor) and you're set :-)
Okay, so here we go. Remember that "$s" is the search query and we'll be using this in this classic elseif PHP code. Also note that if you want to write a quotation mark in PHP you write \". Let's get to the code:
<? if ($s == "x") {
echo "You searched for x. Blah blah blah <a href=\"http://www.test.com/test\">click this link</a>";
} elseif ($s == "y") {
echo "You searched for y. Blah blah blah and so on";
} elseif ($s == "z") {
echo "You searched for z and probably get it by now";
} else {
echo "Your search query \"" . $s . "\" wasn't recognized";
} ?>
This is just basic PHP, no WordPress-only in there :)
*** UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE ***
I just realized that the code above is case sensitive. With the code below a search for "Effekten" will be converted to "effekten" as would "effeKten", "eFfEkTeN" and… you get the picture :-)
<? if (strtolower($s) == "x") {
echo "You searched for x. Blah blah blah <a href=\"http://www.test.com/test\">click this link</a>";
} elseif (strtolower($s) == "y") {
echo "You searched for y. Blah blah blah and so on";
} elseif (strtolower($s) == "z") {
echo "You searched for z and probably get it by now";
} else {
echo "Your search query \"" . $s . "\" wasn't recognized";
} ?>
Tags: CMS, PHP, Search, Searches, wordpress
Age matters when you Google in Korea
Google Korea plans to introduce an age-verification system to its search engine later this year that will restrict adult-themed searches to those 19 years of age and older, it said Thursday.
More at Infoworld: "Google Korea to censor search results"
Related postsTags: Censorship, Google, Search, Search engines, Searches, Searching
Google experimental search with keyboard shortcuts
Okay, yet another Google post :)
At LifeHacker I read a post on an experimental Google search that let's you navigate through the search results Gmail style.
Check it out :D
Related postsTags: Google, Search, Search engines, Searches, Searching
Google's new search results layout kicks in
I read about it yesterday at the Google Blog, the universal search that is suppose to make it easier to search for the same query across the web, news, images, blogs, music and videos.
However you don't get the same options at every search, for instance a search for "Ungdomshuset" (the "Youth house" here in Denmark that has been in the media the past months) doesn't allow you to click "News" which a search for — as a test — "Britney Spears" does.
So maybe the new feature is still being rolled out?
One feature that is on evey search is that Google now has placed the "Web | Images | Video | News | Maps | Gmail | More" at the left top corner of the search results page.
Also check out the latest Google Blog post on the new universal search: "Behind the scenes with universal search".
Related postsTags: Google, Search, Search engines, Searches, Searching
Google sits on 64 percent of all US search queries
According to CNet Google has 64 percent of all search queries in the US:
Web search leader Google's market share inched up to 64 percent of all queries among U.S. Internet searchers in March, gaining further ground against Yahoo and Microsoft, a survey released on Wednesday by Hitwise found.
The number of search queries on Google rose to 64.1 percent in March, compared with 63.9 percent in February and 58.3 percent a year ago, according to Hitwise, which bases its report on the surfing habits of 10 million U.S. Web users.
And just when you thought, Google couldn't get any bigger..!
Related postsTags: Google, Search, Search engines, Searches, Searching