Search lately issue 130

ISSUE 130 – 4th APRIL 2014

Best Of Search April Fools’ 2014 For those of you who may have been too busy searching to pick up on all the wonderful April Fools’ create by Google & Bing in the last week follow the link below for a summary of some of the best, including the Google Pokemon Challenge, AdBirds, Gas USB Fuelling Nozzles, Clocking, Apps for Business Dogs and Wearable Technology for Pets.

Shared By Kevin Ting Follow the link for more details: Google April Fools’ - http://selnd.com/1jJTsjf Bing April Fools’ - http://bit.ly/1efnYML - http://bit.ly/1k7qqwA

Google+ Introduces View Counts to Personal Profiles Google+ has introduced a function which means you can now see how many people have viewed your profile. The view count appears under your name and location. This number refers to how many people have viewed your profile, posts, photos and videos- when a piece of media is served up onto another person’s screen this is counted as a view. If someone shares a post of yours this too is counted as a view, as well as when someone sees your post through another user (i.e. “Alice +1’ed this”). There is an option to turn off the feature under settings.

Shared by: Helena Rosam Find out more: http://bit.ly/1efnzKb http://bit.ly/PwCQAe

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Microsoft is Launching Cortana in the US This week Microsoft has formally announced Cortana! Cortana is “powered by Bing” and said to rivel Apple’s Siri and Google’s Voice Search/Google Now. The current search button on Windows Phones will “fully replace” the current search function and It will become a voice-search front end to Bing’s index and capabilities for Windows mobile devices. Therefore, if you need to do a search, you’re going to do that with Cortana and Cortana will decide where to route your search or request, to Bing, to Yelp, to launch an app or query. Suggestions also appear, and some of them are even personalized to you.