Twitter, News. Image. Find Creative Commons Images in Google Image Search. Google Image Search added the option to restrict the results to images that are licensed using Creative Commons, a list of flexible licenses that allow content creators to share their works with the world. The options aren't yet available in the interface, but you can use the search box below to find images that are licensed using some of the most popular Creative Commons licenses: The four options displayed above combine different Creative Commons license, but you can create customized searches for other combination of licenses: * public domain images: * images licensed using Creative Commons Attribution: * images licensed using Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike: Last month, Yahoo Image Search added a similar feature, limited to Flickr images.
How To: Backup And Search All Your Friends' Tweets In Googl. I just set up an automatic backup of all 3000 of my friends' Twitter messages and became able to search through their Twitter history two years into the past with just five minutes of easy clicking. Only two things are required: Dave Winer's new Twitter OPML tool and a Google Reader account. Twitter's search engine only goes back about a week and a half. Sometimes you want to retrieve a message you saw, or get a feeling for what your circle of friends said about something, from longer ago than that. We wrote yesterday about 10 Ways To Archive Your Tweets. The next step is to archive the Tweets of everyone else you find of interest, and make them searchable.
Last week RSS forefather Dave Winer wrote and posted a little tool for pulling any Twitter user's friends list out of Twitter and saving it as an OPML file. OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language and in this case it's just a bundle of RSS feeds than can be moved around in bulk. How to Make it Happen Caveats. How Should Tweets Be Ranked in Search Engine Results? « I’m Not. November 2, 2009 by Hutch Carpenter Anyone remember when Loic LeMeur had the temerity to suggest Twitter rank its search results by the number of followers people have?
His post, with 109 comments and reaction from Michael Arrington, Robert Scoble and many others, clearly struck a nerve. Fast forward to the past couple weeks. Both Microsoft Bing and Google announced deals to provide tweets in search results. Bing’s version is the first out the gate. How should tweets be ranked in Bing and Google search results? I hope your answer isn’t, “I wouldn’t.” So what about running searches for tweets? First, a good question to ask is, why do people want to search tweets? Why Are You Searching Tweets? To my mind, there are three use cases where people will search for tweets rather than search for websites: Find peopleFind latest on a subject that won’t show up in search engines yet (lack of indexing, lack of authority)Jump into conversations on something What is that? Tweet Authority Criteria. Google Answers the Twitter Threat With Time-Based Search Options. Google has just made search a lot more useful, and real-time search offerings (i.e.
Twitter Search, OneRiot, and Tweetmeme) are about to feel the power of the Google juggernaut. Why? Because of the release of Google Search Options, a new Google search feature that provides the user the ability to drill down search results by recency, content type, and more. Announced today by Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of Search and User Experience, Google Search Options is an attempt to organize universal search results - ones that include news, blog posts, images, and videos. Once turned on (by clicking "Show Options" in any search result), the feature appears as a left-hand column next to search results.Search Options has four different sections for filtering results. The first is the content drill down, which is already available on Google search. But as you look at the other options that are available, things get intriguing, starting with time-based filtering. Rethinking Social Relevancy Rank: What's Missing?
The future of search almost certainly involves social networks, social graphs, or social filtering in some capacity. Companies will live or die by whether they get the "social" part right: creating the right level of intimacy, trust, reliability, social connectedness, and accuracy in their results listings. Of course, this specifically means that their user experience must at least meet or, preferably, exceed that of Google's. To achieve this, we must first stop arguing over the different flavors of search. Real-time search. Social search. Semantic search. Because the promise of social network integration with search is a current favorite topic, we'll focus in this post on that: a class of social search.
Alex proposes that we rank search results by a kind of Social Relevancy Rank, first displaying results from friends and people whom we follow and later displaying results from "taste neighbors" and influencers, etc. First, as Alex points out, "trusted opinions are scarce. "