Google, Yahoo get real-time search

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	Google and Yahoo tap Twitter for real-time results This week both Google and Yahoo launched search tools that tap into Twitter and other social media services to provide real-time results. Users of Google's search engine got the feature first. On Monday the search giant began rolling out a new section called "latest results" that automatically refreshes Internet content from sources like Twitter. These show up alongside Google's normal results. Yahoo joined the real-time party a few days later, though did not cut a deal with Twitter for access to the "firehose," an automated feed of data from Twitter. Instead, it's using Twitter's public API and adding its own algorithms to figure out which tweets are most relevant to the query. So why is implementing this extra stream of data important? Read on to find out. Read all real-time search posts  Read about Yahoo's announcement  Read about Google's announcement Tom Krazit CNET.com New on Webware.com How to fix Facebook's new privacy settings Posted by Rafe Needleman When logging in to Facebook Thursday, I, like millions of other people, got the directive to update my privacy settings to fit in to the new, "simplified," scheme. But at their core, the Facebook privacy settings have not been simplified. Beyond the set-up page, Facebook's privacy controls are now more complex and more powerful.  Read more  Offline Gmail access now a full-fledged feature Posted by Stephen Shankland After more than five years as a publicly available test version, Gmail shed its beta label in July. Now one feature key to the Net giant's cloud-computing aspirations, offline access to Gmail, also has grown up less than a year after its debut.  Read more  Norton Online Backup 2.0 hits the Web Posted by Harrison Hoffman Norton has put together a very solid offering with version 2.0 of Norton Online Backup. It is introducing support for Intel-based Mac for the first time with this release. This is huge, especially when the company is trying to offer a solution for the whole household. Where most other online storage or backup services focus on serving one user, Norton has placed the focus on protecting the whole family or household.  Read more  Hands-on Chrome beta for Mac Posted by Seth Rosenblatt Google released the first beta build of its Chrome browser for Mac and Linux earlier this week, and it's hard not to be impressed when putting the Mac version through its paces. Chrome for Mac still lacks some of the key features that are currently available in the Windows beta, but this is a browser that most people should feel comfortable using.  Read more  Most people say no to slow online video Posted by Don Reisinger About 81 percent of Web users leave an online video page if they encounter mid-stream rebuffering, a new study from video analytics firm TubeMogul has found. Rebuffering has become a major issue for most Web users. And even though TubeMogul found that just 7 percent of streaming video is slow-loading, it said Web video still can't quite match TV-quality viewing.  Read more  Up your Web note taking game Firefox note-taking add-ons are Web supersavers Posted by Dennis O'Reilly Web pages aren't getting any smaller, but there are usually not more than a few paragraphs or a couple of images of particular interest on any given page. Firefox add-ons ICyte, Wired-Marker, and Trails let you save all or sections of Web pages and share your snippets with others.  Read more  Three more ways to slice and dice the Web Posted by Dennis O'Reilly There's no reason to take the Web as it comes. Not when there are Firefox add-ons that turn Web pages into putty that you can shape as you wish. These three--Zotero, MashLogic, and RSVP Reader--let you gather and store all or parts of Web pages, open a customizable info box for whatever topics you encounter, and convert a block of text into a string of phrases that flash in a box at a speed you control.  Read more  More Webware  Webware RSS feed  The Webware 100  About Webware.com
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