Tag: PERSONALIZED

Yesterday Google launched a personalized search suggestions technology for Google Maps. These suggestions are based on your previous Google web history. Using previous web as well as location searches, Google Maps attempts to find results tailored to you. An example from the Google Earth and Maps blog: "...if you've looked at cafes on Google Maps with past searches, you might see them as ...

For a while now, Google has been using the search histories of its logged-in users to deliver better results through its Personalized Search feature. This convenient - or creepy, depending on your perspective - service is now available even to logged-out users. If you're not logged in, though, where does Google save your search history? In an anonymous cookie, it turns out, with a Twinkie-esque ...

Google is starting to add user-generated information to Google Maps search results. For example, if you search for "bike paths in New York," several of the top results will include a note showing where the East River Bike Path narrows as well as listings for bike shops. The user-generated results show up with blue icons, and for this particular query are a lot more accurate than the standard ...

Google has unleashed a new Google Talk Gadget for use on your Google personalized homepage. The Talk client -- still only available for PC users -- can be semi-enjoyed by Mac users with this new Gadget implementation that resembles what PC users have been enjoying for quite a while, although it adds a few slick features. The new Google Talk Gadget shares the functionality of the standalone ...

ImageChef is a family-friendly site that allows you to create custom images for your blog, forum signature or general amusement. Without having to register any kind of account, you can modify text in a variety of image templates. The resulting pictures can be easily saved or emailed to friends. ImageChef will host your pictures if you're a registered user (registration is free), and provide the ...

Yep, yet another one. Pageflakes is a personalized home page along the lines of Google Personalized Home, Netvibes, and so on. It's nice and AJAXy as we've come to expect and has a pretty good selection of widgets ("flakes"), including address book, sticky notes, to-do lists, Gmail, headlines, and so on. One nice feature not seen everywhere else is the ability to create multiple pages, ...

The torrent of personalized AJAXy homepages continues. This week's contender is ItsAStart.com, a site with poor punctuation but all the standard features. It has RSS feeds, weather, bookmarks, sticky notes, and a clock. It has a Google Search widget but no others--a shame when other services offer unlimited, custom search boxes. Also, the RSS feeds can be expanded to show entire items, which some ...

Between Google's Personalized Homepage, Microsoft's Start.com, NetVibes, Protopage, and Goowy, It's getting hard to keep track of all of these personalized homepage services. Favoor is another such service. It works mostly like the others, but as Martin at Tipmonkies points out the only "widgets" allowed are links, RSS feeds, and sticky notes. What, no custom search boxes? It is, of ...