Published December 15, 2008
in Google.
I didn’t even realize Google has launch a new feature that called Google SearchWiki back in late November 2008 until suddenly I notice how my result page changed today.
I guess maybe Google slowly rolling out SearchWiki feature to some random user or continent.
I remember Matt Cutt talking about this ages ago but I didn’t have the opportunity to test it out at that time.
This is something I have been waiting for a long time. I always hate some website that manipulate search engine weakness to be on the result page. I don’t want spam site appear on my search result page. Their website really give nothing to me other than junk and full of advertisement.
Now they are gone FOREVER (at least for me).
The result that you modified will be only seen by you – it doesn’t effect other user search result (I guess this the most dreamed feature by spammer LOL). And that is perfectly fine, I don’t really care what other people see anyway but I do believe Google care.
Here is some screenshot from my search
And you can even leave comment on each result in Google SearchWiki
I am curious how long have you guys already have this feature? Am I the last people who get this feature?
Previously I post on the Gmail new feature: Gmail themes and there is a comment that said maybe Gmail themes won’t be available for Internet Explorer user.
Curious with it then I decided to run Gmail on 3 different browsers on my machine. So here is the result.
Gmail themes on Internet Explorer 8 Beta 64bit
Gmail themes on Google Chrome
Gmail themes on Minefield 64bit
As you can see Chrome and Minefield display themes as it supposed to be seen but on IE it really suck.
See the pencil, coffee stain and the flowers picture cut off. And there is no darker background to make the top menu stand out.
I don’t understand this, why can’t just Microsoft people create a standard browser as others do. I believe it is not they are not capable of doing so, or maybe it is just another marketing tactic even though I don’t know what it is.
On the latest IE 8 still didn’t show much improvement. Why did they care to make incognito function (called InPrivate Browsing in IE) and some other stilly function that only a small percentage of user will use while they can’t even render standard CSS properly.
This morning I woke up and fire up my browser to check email I got some nice notification when I log on.
Gmail got themes!!
Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven’t been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we’re launching today, there’s a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There’s even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers — it’s not exactly practical, but it’s great for testing out your geek cred. We’ve also done a minor facelift to Gmail’s default look to make it crisper and cleaner — you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.
At the moment you can choose from 30 fabulous themes.
Here is what my Gmail looks like at the moment.
If you still haven’t notice this change, you can check in your Gmail setting. There should be new tab there named “themes”.
The first 15 themes only just color play while the other 15 themes really unique themes. Must be a lot of effort have been put into this. I think all of them really beautiful and I can’t decide which one to use.
REMARK:
If the tab still not appear in your settings maybe you have to wait for a few days. As always Google will roll out the new feature slowly in-case somebody will spot some nasty bug :p
