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Larry Page Takes the Pulpit to Praise Technology, Snipe at Competitors
The CEO drops in on his company’s annual developer conference.
Twitter, Discovery and the Problem of Simplicity
A product engineering problem for the ages if ever there was one.
Foursquare’s iOS Update Brings Search to the Forefront
An app update for the social service continues the startup’s charge into “local discovery” territory.
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LinkedIn Beefs Up Sitewide Search
LinkedIn announced an update to its search function on Monday, tweaking some smaller qualities to the site’s people-browsing capabilities. Among the improvements are a “smart query intent algorithm” — which learns and gets better with each search you perform — as well as suggested searches and automated alerts.News Byte
Discovery App Spindle Beefs Up Its Search Product
Spindle, the mobile-only discovery app that allows users to better find places of interest around them, pushed a significant update on Thursday, amping up the app’s search capabilities to a much larger degree. Users will now be able to continuously search for keywords, which will notify them if a place of interest nearby matches the term. The service is also launching in three new cities — Chicago, Austin and Seattle — in addition to existing cities San Francisco, Boston and New York.News Byte
Twitter Beefs Up Search Product
On the heels of a significant revamp to its mobile products, Twitter has expanded the amount of results you can find using the company’s search product, the company announced Thursday. While previously search results only returned tweets over a series of days, Twitter search will now span years of results, serving up tweets based on certain factors like engagement, retweets and the like.News Byte
Twitter Tweaks Search and Discover Products
Twitter announced Wednesday a host of incremental improvements to its Search and Discover sections for the company’s iPhone and Android apps. Most are minor tweaks, including a more integrated mix of search results, combining noteworthy tweets, activity, trends and accounts into one stream.With Graph Search, Facebook Needs to Go Beyond the “Like”
Facebook “Likes” this. But that’s not enough for good search results.
Graph Search: Facebook’s Way of Keeping You Inside of Facebook (Video)
Facebook aims to be your own personal Internet, one search at a time.
Path’s Personal Take on Social Discovery
A quaint take on finding the best places to visit.