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How Yahoo Smartly Redesigned Its Search By Not Changing Much

Yahoo search looks different today. It’s likely you haven’t noticed because, well, many, many, many, many people have moved on from Yahoo. To those remaining, or anyone rubbernecking in this morning, it sort of looks like just frumpy old Yahoo, slightly re-organised. But that’s by design. And keeping it visually consistent while improving the overall functionality actually requires more sophisticated tinkering than you might think.

31 May 2013

Online

Google Search Will Tell You How Many Calories Are In That Burger Now

This is great if you’re watching your waistline — and even if you’re not. Google has added very specific nutritional information to search. Whether you want to know how many carbs are in an apple to how much sodium is in a bowl of miso soup, it will give you an exact answer.

24 May 2013

Online

Google’s New Trend Visualiser Is A Truly Beautiful Thing

Google has been logging data about hot trends ever since you started tip-tapping search terms into its front page, but now it’s gone and made it look damn pretty with it. The new full-screen visualisation shows off the data that’s been available as a staid list for a long time, but in glorious technicolor.

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Google Thinks Gayest And Worst Mean The Same Thing

When you search for something on Google, Google knows what you’re looking for, even if you’re not saying it exactly. Google search is smart like that. If you search for ‘hilarious videos’, Google will also show you results for ‘funny videos’ too (words that Google equates as synonyms pop up in bold in Google search results). So it’s troubling that Google thinks ‘gayest’ and ‘worst’ mean the same thing.

23 May 2013

Online

The First Piece Of Google Chrome’s Conversational Future Is In Place

The first crazy leaps into a Star Trek future just showed up in the latest stable build of Chrome. As of now, “Conversational Search” has now rolled out, which means that Chrome can now remember what you’re searching for if you ask a couple of questions in a row.

21 May 2013

Online

Flickr’s Massive Redesign: Full-Res Photos, Free 1TB Storage

Sure, Yahoo just about killed Flickr, but today it’s trying to restore its former glory. Just after the company this morning announced its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, it showed off a completely redesigned version of Flickr with giant photos and more storage than you probably even need. Updated with video walkthrough.

16 May 2013

Online

Did Google Just Try To Totally Change How Search Works?

Google might have just added a huge feature to Search. It’s trying to make it conversational.

13 May 2013

Online

Google Axed SMS Search Thinking People Wouldn’t Notice

Shocking no one, or very very few people, Google turned off its SMS search service on Friday. Reports of the outage have begun to sloooowly trickle in on Google forums and Reddit, but for the most part the spacetime continuum seems to be holding up.

10 May 2013

Online

The Secret NSA Search Tips That Will Make You A Spy

Following a Freedom of Information Act request by MuckRock, the National Security Agency in the US has been forced to make public a book it produced, called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research. Understandably, it’s full of gems.

8 May 2013

Software

This Brilliant Pizza Compass App Is Exactly What It Sounds Like

It’s 2am. You’re leading your goofball friends through the streets, trying to find an open pizza place. Yelp is inconclusive. Google Maps is worse. Soon, thanks to the new slice-finding app Pizza Compass, such uncomfortable scenarios may be obsolete.

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