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Don’t know if this feature is for testing or a full release. I’ve not come across this anywhere on the web (may be i’m too ignorant to notice this feature). The other possibility is - I always have cookies disabled for *.google.com :p in Firefox. Don’t remember reading about this anywhere either.

Its something like this:

• Login to your google account
• Search for any keyword, e.g movies
• Click on any link & then hit the browser back button
• Just hit refresh after you are back on the search results page
• Time will be displayed across the link which you visited (clicked on)

If you happen to visit the page more than once, the search results page will display the number of times the page is visited by you.
This feature will not work if you are not logged in to your google account.

Didn’t find this feature working fully correct, specially the number of visits shown across a link in search results page.

Technorati Tags: google, search, time, search results

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After finance quotes now its time for the videos to appear on the search results page. Just came across a youtube video indexed by google search. Clicking on the the traditional plus button opened up the youtube video right below the search results (autoplay). Check screeshot.

Technorati Tags: google, search, youtube, searchresults, yahoo

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The new youtube player has got a lot of updates to it. Firstly they have changed the loading indicator which appears before the video starts loading. Other features are, jumping ahead to a part of video without actually waiting for the video to fully load.
While the video is playing, clicking on the menu button will restore the video (in playing mode) to the top-left corner and display a list of relative videos at the bottom of the player. The best thing about this relative videos feature is that the user will remain engaged to the site for a much longer time. The relative videos are shown in a mac - like style. The share options are also changed. The ratings are also diaplayed at the bottom right as we hover the relative video thumbnails.

Technorati Tags: youtube, upgrades, video, player, google

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Got an orkut teaser from my friend this morning. Logged in to orkut & saw a b/w feeds button on the left. Clicked on edit feeds button, did the captcha & voila … got my flickr and delicious feeds on the orkut profile page. Nice and simple. I must say this is one of the coolest feature orkut has added till date. Unlike the videos feature, this time they have no restriction on the feeds which can be added. The add video feature ion orkut is still restricted to youtube & google videos.

The native rss button on the left says edit feeds, but all what it allows to do is add & delete feeds. The feeds are visible to all the people who can see your profile. It would be nice if they define access levels for feeds. Something like restrict the feeds to friends or certain groups. But to start off… Its a real nice feature. How about getting some meshed up feeds from Yahoo! pipes.

Now thats what I call social networking.

Technorati Tags: orkut, rss, feeds, socialnetworking, networking

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Google re-launches its personalized home page as iGoogle. The newer version of Google IG comes with some interesting features like a theme selector and widgets. Some of the popular widgets are AIM Messenger, MSN Messneger, Youtube, Free Text Messages (which doesn’t work in India ) and lot of them, didn’t try most of them.

Argggghhhhh.My browser crashed .. (the chat gadget did it all); Thanks to the auto save feature by WP.

They seem to have removed the Y! Messenger widget from the popular category(which was there some time back). I tried the Y! Messenger widget & even that worked out in a strange way(see screen shot - Widget title mismatch).

Overall, The iGoolge stuff looks nice; lot of options when it comes to widgets, a few themes and most importantly its buggy. So save your work before you try out iGoogle ( not every one is lucky to have an auto save feature :P)

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