The newest craze to hit Tumblr, courtesy of the new Facebook Graph Search, is clearly putting some folks in a compromising position. The new Facebook search method, which isn’t yet available to everyone, has a very robust and dynamic search which allows for all kinds of search results based on your Social Graph.
Let’s be honest - Facebook Search sucks. It always has. If you are on Facebook and want search results comparable to Google’s search engine, it’s gonna happen. That is until now. Facebook is finally promising a better, more intelligent search, which is something to get excited about.
If you are aren’t sure who exactly to cast your vote for this coming November, why not ask Google? I mean, who are these people really? Don’t worry, Google has all the answers. I think my favorite though is President Obama may just be an alien.
It’s amazing what can be accomplished simply by putting forth 100% and not giving up. That’s what 15 year old Jack Andraka did one day when he realized he had an interest in cancer research.
WolframAlpha, the computational search engine has released a new tool which will take all your Facebook data and put it through the ringer and spit out some really detailed information about your Facebook activities, including those of your friends on the social network.
You may not have noticed this yet, but overnight Google rolled out a new math function in search results. In the past if you typed 4+4 you would get the equation and answer shown, but now Google displays a fancy calculator in addition to the answer. So now right in Google you can do some advanced math. You can type the equation right into the Omnibox (search bar) to get the results, or go directly to Google.com and type the equation there to get it to come up. Alternatively if you just type “calculator” into the search, it will come up that way as well.
It’s not just a patent war, it’s also a full on product war. Who is building better products these days - Apple or Google? Techno Buffalo compares Siri and Google Search side by side to see who will out perform the other. The results may surprise you based on which fanbase you favor. With Google Now coming in the new Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update, Android will really be building a phenomenal product.
Some of you may have noticed that I am an iPhone fanboy, well because I own one and it’s pretty darn awesome. One of the major changes to iOS 5 version that came along last year was Siri, the “intelligent assistant.” Siri allows you to ask it questions, and get responses based on queries it makes to different sources. The big problem that I have had with Siri is that it hardly works. Most of the time whatever I say just ends up being a Google search.
Google announced an exciting new change coming to the search engine which will bring tons of factual results to the forefront of Google searches. The new search feature is called the Knowledge Graph, which will tap into database facts to present relevant snippets of information based on your searches.
Google created a new game on it’s social network called A Google A Day, which is a daily search puzzle that is solved using nothing but Google Search to find the answers. It’s a clever way to get users to challenge themselves, and also improve your Google Search skills by learning the best ways to use the search engine.
In a recent report by Eugene Volokh, which was commissioned by Google, he claims that Google Search results deserve the same free speech rights as articles that appear in newspapers and news websites, for example the New York Times.
If you have your own blog, maybe it’s on Tumblr since the social blogging service is so popular these days, and you want to track your traffic, I highly recommend Google Analytics. It’s a flexible, detailed and a free traffic reporting tool by Google.
There is a new surveillance system that a Japanese company has developed that may change life as we know it. I am saying that because it’s that revolutionary. Facial recognition software has been in the making for years now, with many advances recently. I am sure you have seen it in movies too; I am thinking of Minority Report as one example of course. There are also examples here and here that just go to show this type of tech is coming along fast.
Now that Google has officially shut down Google Health, they still wanted a way to help users with health related issues. Health is one of the top three biggest topics online (Health, Games & Auto). Google has also mined enough data to know that users that search for health symptoms also follow those up with searches for related health conditions.
As part of a NY Times post on the updated and new premium services for Wolfram Alpha, the computational search engine, they let out a tidbit of information that 25% of all searches on the search engine derive from Siri. Siri as you know is the Apple intelligent voice assistant which just debuted with the iPhone 4S a few months ago.
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