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Entries from May 2008

Facebook’s New Inbox Search Feature: Is It Enough?

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Tags: Image Search