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Want newer results when you search Google from your smartphone? Want more or fewer pictures in your results page? Google’s recently begun showing Search Options to a number of smartphone users.
Like its desktop counterpart, Search Options lets you restrict search results to recent time frames, tweak how many non-text results crop up, and perform specialty searches, in this case for forum posts and review sites. There aren’t as many options as on a full-sized browser, and the Options menu is similarly tucked away, on the right-hand side in this version.
Still, the reviews search seems useful for browsing what’s gotten good notice around you, when combined with mobile location, at least. Search Options should show up on iPhone, Android, and Palm WebOS phones; Windows Mobile and BlackBerry users might have to wait a bit.
October 12th, 2009 by admin
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Yahoo is losing another executive today. Patrick Barry, who heads up Yahoo’s Connected TV group, sent out an email to staff this morning (reproduced below) informing them that he is leaving at the end of the month to “move on to new projects.” According to the email (below), he is briefing staff right now. (Josh Jacobs, head of ad technology platforms, is also leaving).
Update: Barry confirms via email: “i am leaving yahoo. too much opportunity out there not too.”
Through a series of deals with TV manufacturers like Samsung and Sony, the Connected TV product brings Web widgets from Yahoo to your TV. As such, it is a pretty central part of Yahoo’s strategy to connect consumers to the Web and the information that matters to them most.
Yet one former Yahoo executive I spoke to says Bartz has never even seen the Connected TV product. Whether or not that is true, losing executives heading up the products meant to extend Yahoo’s reach beyond the PC is an indication that her attention is elsewhere.
» Read more: Yahoo Loses Connected TV Leader Patrick Barry. Is Bartz Paying Attention?
October 12th, 2009 by admin
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