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Google Updgrades Accessible Search [In Brief]
Lifehacker —
[image] Google has upgraded the optional Accessible Search feature available from Google Labs. Now, individual results pop up in bright, blue boxes with large text you can choose to make larger. You can navigate results with the keyboard, with alert sounds, and a screenreader will read back the highlighted entry. Just visit the Experimental Search page , scroll down to Accessible View and click the Join this Experiment button. Anyone else find it quicker to scan and less cluttered than the regular search results page? [ ...
“Accessible View” in Google Experimental Search page
D' Technology Weblog —
... Google has added an opt-in features called “Accessible View” to their Experimental Search page. When you join, you’ll see a blue focus box around individual search result items in Google web search. You can then use the up and down arrows on the keyboard to select different items, and hit enter to go to the specific page. The blue focus box is “magnified to aid low-vision users,” Google says, and that “if you are using a screenreader … you will hear the relevant information spoken ...
More Ways to Hide Google SearchWiki Features [Google]
Lifehacker —
... , but there are viable work-arounds for those not using Firefox or its page-styling Greasemonkey extension. The Google Operating System blog points out four other methods. Most clever and convenient among them is heading to your Experimental Feature settings and enabling any other experiment, like keyboard shortcuts, which disables SearchWiki buttons and notes until you clear out your browser's cookies. Also recommended: Signing out from your Google account and a URL-ending trick, detailed at Google Operating System's post.
Google shows experimental “timeline view” in search results
D' Technology Weblog —
... ] on Google.com, the search results page is now showing “timeline view,” which was previously only available as an opt-in experiment in Google Labs. Clicking the “More timeline results” in the main search results leads to a page with much more historical data about your query that Google says comes from their ...
Google Timeline results graduates from Labs
Tech Digest —
... Towards the start of last year, Google experimented with different ways to view search results in its "Experimental" section. They were evidently happy enough with one of them - Timeline - that it's now appearing in some queries in the main results. Timeline allows you to browse results by when they were posted, or when they ocurred. The picture above is for a search for "book of revelations", though ...
Google Launches Social Search Experiment to Search What Your Friends Are Posting [Search Engines]
Lifehacker —
... social circle. Here's how they're planning to make it all work: Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person. Unfortunately, that information isn't always very easy to find in one simple place. That's why today we're rolling out a new experiment on Google Labs called Google Social Search that helps you find more relevant ...
Google Social Search Encorporates Twitter
Geeky-Gadgets —
... After announcing last week at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco that Google would be adding Twitter to its Google Social Search you can now use the social networking search tool to trawl through “tweets” as part of its search results. ...
With new Social Search, Google aims to be busybody-in-chief
Consumer Reports Electronics Blog —
... I'm now participating in the experiment at Google Labs to check out the social search's functionality for myself. If you're interested (you'll need a Google/Gmail account), sign up here. —Nick K. Mandle ...
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