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организация информации
14 March 2010 | Google, Software | No Comments
во-первых, в Google News теперь есть и газеты:
You can now browse all the issues digitized by Google for newspapers. The digitized newspapers are searchable in the Google News Archive and they’re also included in Google’s regular search results.
а во-вторых, в Google Reader появился новый интерфейс:
In Google Reader Play, items are presented one at a time, and each item is big and full-screen. After you’ve read an item, just click the next arrow to move to the next one, or click any item on the filmstrip below to fast-forward. Of course, you can click the title or image of any item to go to the original version. And since so much of the good stuff online is visual, we automatically enlarge images and auto-play videos full-screen.
рабоает оно, конечно, пока странно, но в плане навигации визуальных потоков выглядит мнгообещающе.
работа над ошибками
8 March 2010 | Google | No Comments
Criticism of Google, между прочим.
упрощение
4 March 2010 | Google, Internet | No Comments
SearchWiki is gone:
Google removed SearchWiki, the feature that allowed you to customize search results by promoting them, removing them or adding comments below search snippets. SearchWiki cluttered search results and the aggregated results from public SearchWiki pages were rarely useful.
SearchWiki has been replaced with a simple feature that lets you star search results.
под рукой
27 February 2010 | Google, Software | No Comments
Gmail стал еще лучше:
The good news is that 2 labs features will greatly improve Gmail search: “Search Autocomplete” and “Go To Label”. If you have many labels, it’s difficult to find one of your labels, especially if you added the label to the “more” dropdown. “Go To Label” adds a keyboard shortcut that lets you quickly open a label: type “g l” and then type the first letters of the label you want to find.
автодополнение работает совершенно замечательно и подсказывает не только почтовые адреса, как раньше, но абсолютно все (и даже Quick Links в том числе):
The autocomplete feature is not useful only when you want to open a label you’ve created. You can also use it for built-in labels like “unread”, “starred”, “chat”, “buzz”, “muted”. Type the first letters of the word “unread” and you should find a quick link that shows all your unread messages.
If you use Gmail’s advanced search operators, the autocomplete feature shows common values for the operators. Type the “is” operator and Gmail shows a list of built-in labels.
Gmail’s search box lets you restrict the results to messages that have attachments or to messages that include a certain type of attachment. Type “has” and you’ll see a list of options that show messages with photo attachments, documents, videos or calendar events. You can also type natural language queries like: “photos”, “documents”, “attachments”.
The search box is now the quickest way to find messages from one of your contacts: type the name of a contact or only the first letters from the name and you can read all the conversation with that person. If you want to restrict the results to the messages received from a contact, type “from:” before entering the name.
право, who needs mutt when you have Gmail?
багфиксы
14 February 2010 | Google, Security, Software | No Comments
а вот и первые результаты:
It’s been an exciting and challenging week for the Buzz team. We’ve been getting feedback via the Gmail help forums and emails from friends and family, and we’ve also been able to do something new: read the buzz about Buzz itself. We quickly realized that we didn’t get everything quite right. We’re very sorry for the concern we’ve caused and have been working hard ever since to improve things based on your feedback. We’ll continue to do so.
ну, и по пунктам:
First, auto-following. <...> So starting this week, instead of an auto-follow model in which Buzz automatically sets you up to follow the people you email and chat with most, we’re moving to an auto-suggest model.
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Second, Buzz will no longer connect your public Picasa Web Albums and Google Reader shared items automatically.
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Third, we’re adding a Buzz tab to Gmail Settings.
как говорится,
xxx: еее! я отловил очередного жука в своей проге! )
xxx: используя лишь свой мозг
yyy: как приманку?
нас всех перезнакомят
13 February 2010 | Google, Security | 1 Comment
и еще немного про Buzz и privacy concerns:
Suppose a bunch of your contacts innocently choose to follow you? If your followers are all from a particular area, then anyone who views your profile can guess roughly where you live. If they include therapists or divorce lawyers, then anyone who views your profile can guess how your personal life is going.
там много подобных-разных, ага, Гугл.
по секрету всему свету
13 February 2010 | Google, Security | 1 Comment
кстати, о прайваси: история повторяется с забавной точностью — Гугл мало того, что совершенно не учится на ошибках, так еще и результат все хуже с каждой итерацией.
нет, разумеется, они предельно точны в своей политике и дословно следуют логике Эрика Шмидта:
If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.
однако, Гугл еще все-таки не купил Землю, а на пока что дворе не 1984 год.
велосипед
12 February 2010 | Google, Software | No Comments
ну, и про Buzz заодно — во-первых, предсказания начинают сбываться, вэйв и в самом деле плавно растекается фейсбуком по джимэйлу, а во-вторых, сейчас это все же больше напоминает попытки вскочить в давно ушедший поезд.
так что всех развлечений только очередные кросспосты, но, уверен, игрушка все же заработает (именно по причине своей абсолютной никчемности).
смешно, впрочем, другое:
According to CNet, Google’s Sergey Brin said that one of the most useful Buzz features for him is the ability “to start typing a thought right off the bat without having to worry about disrupting other people… I can throw something out there and the people who are most interested and most relevant tend to pay attention and reply.”
но при этом оповещения нескончаемой толпой падают в ящик, а собственно метка Buzz постоянно мелькает обновляющимеся цифрами — хорошенькое себе “without having to worry about disrupting other people”, все приходится делать самому.
кнопка за кнопкой
1 February 2010 | Google, Software | No Comments
памятуя былое, кричу от негодования: если в Gmail я нажимаю ‘l’ для того, чтобы пометить сообщение, а в Google Reader я должен нажимать ‘t’, но, естественно, жму ‘l’, то что я сделаю с остолопами, которые разрабатывали эти интерфейсы? и что должен с ними сделать тот, кто в Google планирует когда-нибудь объединить эти продукты в один пакет?
ненавижу.
frenemies
1 February 2010 | Apple, Google, Technology | No Comments
а вот и штука почище иного:
After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.
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On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. Don’t be evil is a load of crap. Audience roars.
что ж, очередная большая игра началась.