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- An update to Google Social Search
- Sixteen demos enter. One demo triumphs. Welcome to the Demo Slampionship.
- Visualize your own data in the Google Public Data Explorer
| An update to Google Social Search Posted: 17 Feb 2011 12:38 PM PST (Cross-posted on the Social Web Blog) First, social search results will now be mixed throughout your results based on their relevance (in the past they only appeared at the bottom). This means you'll start seeing more from people like co-workers and friends, with annotations below the results they've shared or created. So if you're thinking about climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and your colleague Matt has written a blog post about his own experience, then we'll bump up that post with a note and a picture:  Social search results can rank anywhere on the page, and you'll see who shared the result in the annotation underneath Second, we've made Social Search more comprehensive by adding notes for links people have shared on Twitter and other sites. In the past, we'd show you results people created and linked through their Google profiles. Now, if someone you're connected to has publicly shared a link, we may show that link in your results with a clear annotation (which is visible only to you, and only when you're signed in). For example, if you're looking for a video of President Obama on "The Daily Show" and your friend Nundu tweeted the video, that result might show up higher in your results and you'll see a note with a picture of Nundu:  Now Social Search includes links people share on Twitter and other services Third, we've given you more control over how you connect accounts, and made connecting accounts more convenient. You can still connect accounts publicly on your Google profile, but now we've added a new option to connect accounts privately in your Google Account. (After all, you may not want everyone to know you're @spongebobsuperfan on Twitter.) In addition, if our algorithms find a public account that might be yours (for example, because the usernames are the same), we may invite you to connect your accounts right on the search results page and in your Google Account settings:  The new setting enables you to choose whether or not to show your connected accounts publicly on your Google profile For an overview of Google Social Search and our new features, check out the explanatory video: As always, you'll only get social search results when you choose to log in to your Google Account. We're starting to roll out the updates today on Google.com in English only and you'll see them appear in the coming week. With these changes, we want to help you find the most relevant information possible, personalized to your interests and the people you care about. To learn more, check out our help center.      |
| Sixteen demos enter. One demo triumphs. Welcome to the Demo Slampionship. Posted: 16 Feb 2011 02:24 PM PST Last October, we introduced Demo Slam based on one simple idea: nobody knows Google tech better than our users. So we asked all of you to submit tech demo videos that showcase our technology in fun ways. Four months and many tech demos later, Demo Slam has reached people all over the world. Thanks to students, musicians, filmmakers, scientists, athletes, animators and even a toddler, demoslam.com has become a hub of creativity and technology. We've seen voice searches 20 feet off the ground, a living replica of Mt. Rushmore and a transcontinental Street View road race. It's been tons of fun, but now it's time for Demo Slam to get serious: ladies and gentlemen, the first-ever Demo Slampionship begins today. Sixteen of Demo Slam's finest slams will go head to head in a single elimination tournament. Each round, your votes decide who advances to final Slampionship. Voting for the first round of 16 begins today, followed by the quarter finals, semi finals and the Final Slampionship. Although there can be only one Slampion, every demo will do its part to help millions understand technology a little better. Go to demoslam.com to check out the competition and start voting on the first round. Let the Slampionship begin!     |
| Visualize your own data in the Google Public Data Explorer Posted: 16 Feb 2011 12:11 PM PST (Cross-posted on the Google Code Blog) Today, we're opening the Public Data Explorer to your data. We're making a new data format, the Dataset Publishing Language (DSPL), openly available, and providing an interface for anyone to upload their datasets. DSPL is an XML-based format designed from the ground up to support rich, interactive visualizations like those in the Public Data Explorer. The DSPL language and upload interface are available in Google Labs. To upload a dataset, click on the "My Datasets" link on the left-hand side of the Public Data Explorer. Once imported, a dataset can be visualized, embedded in external websites, shared with others and published. If you're an official provider, you can request that your datasets appear in the Public Data Explorer directory; please contact us to discuss this process.  With this new capability, we hope more datasets can come to life through Public Data Explorer visualisations and enable people to better understand the world around them and make more informed, data-driven decisions. Stay tuned for more datasets, visualization features and DSPL extensions in the future.     |
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