Google SearchWiki
I just did quick search, and saw all these extra icons. After finishing my search, I went to the Google Blog to see what was all this stuff. It turns out that all that extra stuff is Google’s new feature called SearchWiki. SearchWiki allows users to put certain items at the top of the list if they always click result 5 for x search. After watching the video about SearchWiki feature, I thought of several questions:
- Wait a minute, I thought the “My Web History” stuff was supposed to rearrange stuff for me – yes I know SearchWiki is instantaneously.
- I thought marking a result as a bookmark also does this.
- How do I undelete/unremove a search? It’s bound to happen, "Shoot! I meant to hit bump, but I hit the x". I didn’t see an undo button anywhere
- How much extra do screen reader users have to listen to?
- Can I turn this off? Kind of cluttersome
- Are bumped results tied to Google Bookmarks?
- Will bumped results from all users affect general search results?
- What happened to the Google Bookmarks or rather, where’d the bookmark star go?
Sad for Americans
Dear Americans,
I come to you not as a McCain supporter, or Obama supporter, but as an individual who put facts together. This will be quite harsh of an entry, and will seem like I am a disgruntled McCain supporter. I am whole-heartily not. I already had a person I went to college with call me a piece of shit for not being a pro-Obama guy. So let’s begin.
I am quite sad that the United States has picked Barack Obama for the 44th President of the United States. Basically he is the lesser of two evils, in my mind. I am not saying that Obama is an evil man or whatever negative connotation you want to spin on it. What I am saying, is out of the two main candidates, he is the better one. Although I do not think that he will be a good president at this moment.
Gmail: Themes
I logged into Gmail for the first time since about noon Wednesday, I saw that there was something new. THEMES! I am not sure how I feel about them really, I know that there are a few things I would like to see happen prior to these. However, most people like to make things pretty before they are fully functional yet. I know my sister is certainly that way, she is constantly changing her MySpace display picture.
Anyway, I looked at a handful of the themes, and I was undecided. The ones I looked at pretty much got a thumbs down. The one that would bring out the inner geek, Terminal, was disappointing. I could not tell which e-mails were new versus which were read due to the very slight change in greens. The others had similar issues, not enough contrast. This especially came out with the links into e-mails. The color was just too light, I cannot tell if it just was that it matched the background too closely or what. I have it on cold shower right now, but I will see howthe planets theme looks later today when it will be lighter. Planets is the theme of my personal Google page, so hopefully the theme will look decent around 10/11 am.
By the way, hello. I was on a long hiatus from blogging, I don’t have any real excuse why I didn’t this summer, I have been quite busy with school since the end of September. I have been working on a post about the election, hopefully I can get that done in the next few days.
[edit]: While I was little bummed to see that the planets theme did not change, it gets a thumbs down. Google or whoever made the theme, did not apply a new color to the active arrow. So a black arrow on a black (or dark navy) background, doesn’t work too well.
Tim Russert, 58, dies
The top story on my feed just now was Tim Russert passing away earlier today. He passed due to a heart attack.
I started this post back on June, when Jim had passed. I am not sure what all I was going to say. I am publishing this just for archiving sake.