Yandex Islands, interactive search results

Two weeks ago Yandex’s co-founder Ilya Segalovich announced the next step by Yandex: building more interactive sreach result pages. Search engines like Google and Bing are already displaying dynamic information from external sources. Google has the system called Knowlegde Graph which they use to answer question type queries by adding an extra block of information to the right side of the search result pages. Visit the project page for information. Continue reading

How to: Adding Google+ Comments to any website

Last week Google proudly presented their new integrated commenting system based on Google+! This makes it easy to view all the interaction on your blog, via your Google+ account. Google claimes this makes your life as a blogger somewhat easier. One of the positive things I think is, is that you can share your comments with specific people or groups so there is no need to comment publicly!

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