What? 'Google now indexing Facebook comments'

The change came to light Monday, when Digital Inspiration noticed that Googlebots, the technology that scans Web pages, now recognizes comments encased in JavaScript platforms like Facebook Comments, Disqus, and Echo.

Matt Cutts, a Google team member, later confirmed this discovery, tweeting: "Googlebot keeps getting smarter. Now has the ability to execute AJAX/JS to index some dynamic comments."

Web sites like DailyBeast, Patch, and Examiner, which use the Facebook Social Plugin, let readers leave comments using their Facebook profile instead of forcing them to create a new account.

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source: CNet

Firefox Married with Bing, not Google

According to The Bing Team, they will officially work with Mozilla Firefox and the default settings for the search engine will be Bing and no more Google.

Mozilla generated $21.7 million in 2010, down from $26.5 million in 2009. Total revenue and support for 2010 was $123.2 million, up from $104.3 million, according to its annual report. Most of that revenue derived from search deals.

Original Article: http://cnet.co/sGxJu9

5 Hidden Google Search Tips

1. Manually check for malware using Google

We all know that Google itself warns you about fishy websites that host malware. But in case you want to check some website manually for malware content then you can always do it by simply adding the website’s address to this URL and a then Safe Browsing diagnostics page will open up like the one given above, showing details about malware infections, if any.

2. Search pictures by region

If you want to search for photos from a specific region, for example, you want to search for photos of actors from India, then you can easily do it in Google Image Search! All you have to do is to go to the advanced search page and select a region from the drop down list on that page. You can even search for movie posters from a specific region. This tip can prove to be very useful.

3. Search for people’s profiles

Now a days, everyone is on Google+. So if you want to search for people’s profiles, without having to go to Google Plus every time, then doing this is possible. Simply open Google.com in a new tab, do a name search and then add &tbs=prfl:e to the search URL. This limits the search results to only people’s profiles.

4. Read articles without paying

According to Business Insider you can also use Google for read articles from websites like the New York Times that keep information behind a pay wall.

All you have to do is to search for the article by its exact title on Google and it would be displayed in search results. You have the ability of reading up to five articles per day on websites like the NY Times using this trick.

5. Lock Google’s Safe Search

You may have enabled the Safe Search option from Google’s search settings to keep explicit content from being displyed up in results. If you want to ‘lock safe search’ to keep others from changing it on your computer, then you can do it from the settings page. Once you have locked the Safe Search, coloured balls would appear in the search results page signaling that results do not include explicit content.

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