I’ve been playing with the new friendfeed beta for a few days now and I thought it might be useful to share some of what I’ve learned. One of the best new features are the search filters. These filters allow you to effectively create channels on any topic of interest. Below is a walk through [...]
Today we’re rolling out two new improvements to Google search. The first offers an expanded list of useful related searches and the second is the addition of longer search result descriptions — both of which help guide users more effectively to the information they need.
More and better search refinements
Starting today, we’re deploying a new [...]
Search and Trends in Twitter for a fraction of folks.
Twitter Search has been growing ever more popular despite the fact that it lives on a subdomain of our site. Today, we’ve placed Search and Trends into the signed-in home pages of a limited set of accounts to get a better sense of how it works [...]
What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right nowabout any [...]
Imagine that you need a refresher on how to tie a tie. So, you decide to type [how to tie a tie] into the Google search box. Which of these results would you choose?
Where did your eyes go first when you saw the results page? Did they go directly to the title of the first [...]
