In its quest to become a global one-stop site for online communication, Facebook has added a search feature to its messaging system, allowing users to easily locate old messages in their inbox with a click of the mouse. Though this type of feature has been readily available in Gmail and Yahoo among other services, until [...]
Entries from May 2008
Facebook’s New Inbox Search Feature: Is It Enough?
May 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Social Search
Google’s Next-Gen Image Search
May 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Did you know that image searches are basically just glorified text searches?
When a search engine tries to find an image for you, it’s not analyzing image, video, or audio content; the only data it can use is the text associated with image files. As you must expect, this presents an incomplete picture — no pun [...]
Tags: Image Search