I don't have a problem with the new Facebook format, although most of the people posting status updates in my newsfeed have an opinion (mostly negative) about it. What are your thoughts? ____ Most dislike latest Facebook changes By Brett Molina, USA TODAY Judging from the early reaction, it appears difficult to find many Facebook users who like the latest changes rolled out by the social network. Facebook unveiled significant tweaks to user pages, adding "Top Stories" based on how often a user logs in, and adding a news ticker with instant status updates from friends. Instead of choosing between "Top Stories" and "Most Recent" posts, users have a selection of Top Stories from a select timeframe, then scroll down for fresher updates. The layout also condenses information on events and invites. Clicking on that brings up additional details, such as friends' upcoming birthdays or other notable occassions. Feedback to the changes on the Facebook blog have been overwhelmingly negative. "To put it simply, I hate the new format," notes one commenter. Twitter users will find similar sentiments. The term #NewFacebook is among the top trending topics on the site, with many upset over the changes. It's also one of the top searches on Google. The layout changes arrives as one of Facebook's newest rivals, Google+, opens to all Web users. It introduced several tweaks as well, including improvements to search and an expansion of the Hangouts feature. See the article: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2011/09/most-facebook-users-dislike-latest-changes/1

Facebook is changing...again. What are your thoughts on what's going to happen? Make sure to click the link below and watch the video that's on the page. Very interesting! ________________ Facebook 'Timeline' an incredible peek back USAToday.com - The world's most popular social network announced its next chapter this week, a move that aims to make Facebook the platform through which every facet of our life funnels. Facebook on Thursday opened up its platform to a whole new category of applications. These apps will allow Facebook users to enter almost everything they do into the social network — what they cooked for dinner, what book they're reading and what page they're on or what bike trail they just biked. Facebook has long served as a sort of recommendation engine. We could see which restaurants our friends were at or where they vacationed through their photos. The new Facebook will work to make this process even more obvious. Through streaming music services like Spotify, Facebook users can update their friends with each song being sent through their earphones. This kind of lesser, perishable update will quickly pass through the new Ticker on Facebook, a realtime stream of updates from our friends. Friends can click the update to listen along. And if Facebook notices a pattern, such as three friends listening to the same album, it will create a news feed item telling users just that. That's a powerful proposition. Keep reading: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/story/2011-09-24/mark-smith-facebook-timeline-review/50538950/1

Twitter Study Tracks When We Are :) By BENEDICT CAREY However grumpy people are when they wake up, and whether they stumble to their feet in Madrid, Mexico City or Minnetonka, Minn., they tend to brighten by breakfast time and feel their moods taper gradually to a low in the late afternoon, before rallying again near bedtime, a large-scale study of posts on the social media site Twitter found. Drawing on messages posted by more than two million people in 84 countries, researchers discovered that the emotional tone of people’s messages followed a similar pattern not only through the day but also through the week and the changing seasons. The new analysis suggests that our moods are driven in part by a shared underlying biological rhythm that transcends culture and environment. The report, by sociologists at Cornell University and appearing in the journal Science, is the first cross-cultural study of daily mood rhythms in the average person using such text analysis. Previous studies have also mined the mountains of data pouring into social media sites, chat rooms, blogs and elsewhere on the Internet, but looked at collective moods over broader periods of time, in different time zones or during holidays. “There’s just a torrent of new digital data coming into the field, and it’s transforming the social sciences, creating new lenses to look at all sorts of behaviors,” said Peter Sheridan Dodds, a researcher at the University of Vermont who was not involved in the new research. He called the new study “very exciting, because it complements previous findings” and expands on what is known about how mood fluctuates. He and other outside researchers also cautioned that drawing on Twitter had its hazards, like any other attempt to monitor the fleeting internal states labeled as moods. For starters, Twitter users are computer-savvy, skew young and affluent, and post for a variety of reasons. “Tweets may tell us more about what the tweeter thinks the follower wants to hear than about what the tweeter is actually feeling,” said Dan Gilbert, a Harvard psychologist, in an e-mail. “In short, tweets are not a simple reflection of a person’s current affective state and should not be taken at face value.” The study’s authors, Scott A. Golder and Michael W. Macy, acknowledge such limitations and worked to correct for them. In the study, they collected up to 400 messages from each of 2.4 million Twitter users writing in English, posted from February 2008 through January 2010. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/science/30twitter.html?_r=1&hpw

I thought this was very interesting! You don't think about it until someone really brings it to your attention! My how life has changed... ______________ 10 ways mobile gadgets have changed our lives (CNN) -- It's a mobile society. Call it good. Call it bad. It just is. With an estimated 5 billion mobile phone connections in the world, not to mention the emerging number of tablet computers and other on-the-go connectivity gadgets, mobile technology has altered the way we live. It's as hard to imagine spinning a rotary dial or fumbling for a quarter for the pay phone -- both staples of the generation before us -- as it is imagining what new mobile technology may exist in the generation to come. But, for now, here's a look at 10 ways the omnipresence of mobile gadgets has already changed the way we live. Meeting up is easier "We'll meet you there." There was a time when those words would have required a bunch of follow-up details. That time is called "all of human history before everybody had a mobile phone." Now, all we need to do is get our friends in, generally, the same geographical region. To finish the drill, dash off a quick "Where R U?" text. (Or, "Where are you?" if you're not into the whole brevity thing. Or if you like grammar). Change the old adage. "Close" now counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and meeting each other when you have mobile phones. There's no excuse to be bored Standing in line? Killing those last five minutes before quitting time? Stuck in the doctor's waiting room or *shudder* the DMV? There was a time in human existence when all of these occasions would have left us staring at the walls in a zombie-like stupor, particularly if there's not a magazine or book handy. Now? Chat with a friend. Surf the Web. Check your stocks. Fling birds at pigs. Smartphones, or tablet computers, put an amount of computing power in your pocket that would have taken up an entire room a generation ago. If you can't find something to entertain you for a few minutes of down time, you just haven't downloaded the right app. (Editor's note: Notice we didn't say you could do any of this while stuck at a red light. Because we'd never endorse fiddling with your phone while driving. Nope. Never. Ahem.) Keep reading: http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/07/tech/mobile/smartphones-change-lives/index.html

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Upstart Unthink wants to become the new anti-Facebook Doug Gross, CNN Call it "Occupy Facebook." Or, perhaps, "UnOccupy Facebook." Hoping to capitalize on frustrations with the social networking giant, not to mention some of the anti-corporate sentiment bubbling up on Wall Street and beyond, entrepreneurs have launched an upstart site called Unthink. The Tampa, Florida-based startup wants to be everything that Facebook and rival Google+ are not -- and it has the manifesto and sassy YouTube video to prove it. "I couldn't wait to tell my story. I couldn't believe that all this was free," says an actress in the video, strutting through Bohemian city streets in an off-the-shoulder T-shirt with the words "Wild and Free" scrawled on it. "But I never knew that I'd be part of some damn puppet show -- that you thought you could own me. Well, you can't own me!" Later, she confronts a guy in a Google+ T-shirt and another hoodie-wearing character with a striking resemblance to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The video is part of a series of hype-building efforts, along with cryptic news releases promising a "secret project" and "social revolution," that preceded Tuesday's limited launch. Opened for invite-only beta testing on Tuesday, Unthink says it will offer an alternative to the privacy concerns some people have about using Facebook or Google's new rival network. Facebook and Google both collect information about users to tailor advertising to them. Privacy concerns have cropped up over various features Facebook has rolled out -- from mobile check-ins to integration with other websites that can make a user's online behavior more public if settings aren't tweaked. Unthink promises that, under its terms of use, all content will remain the property of the user. After signing up, an app lets users transfer photos and other info from Facebook to the new site. "We worked hard for more than three years to research people's needs and present them with a solution that will empower them," Unthink CEO and founder Natasha Dedis said on the company's website. "Our mission is to emancipate social media and unleash people's extraordinary potential. Our -- not so covert -- mission is to spark a social revolution. We believe in people." Dedis said she had the idea for the site when her son wanted to join Facebook and she read what she called the site's oppressive terms of use. Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/26/tech/social-media/unthink-social-network/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6

Internet Explorer's share of web traffic drops below 50% Internet Explorer can no longer claim more than half of the web’s traffic, as of October, ending more than a decade of the default Microsoft browser’s reign. Safari’s hold on 62.17% of mobile traffic has reduced IE’s overall share of web browsing, despite still claiming 52.63% of desktop traffic, according to Netmarketshare.com. The Microsoft browser’s diminishing share (49.6%) reflects its near absence from the realms of mobile and tablet, which now make up 6% of web traffic. However, chances are, you gave up on IE long enough ago that this milestone makes you more curious as to who actually still uses the browser. As of October, Firefox is the second most popular web browser, accounting for 21.20% of traffic, followed by Google Chrome and Safari, which account for 16.60% and 8.72% respectively. Chrome, which recently celebrated its third birthday, experienced the most expansion in October, increasing its share of the desktop market 1.42%. Safari, the default browser in Apple’s iPhone and iPad, continues to increase its dominance over the mobile web, gaining 6.58% of the market. Safari’s share is increasing faster than the iPhone’s, probably due to how much mobile traffic is now driven by iPads. As IE loses its edge on the competition, we’re curious to know which browser our readers prefer. Take our polls and tell us which are your browsers of choice for desktop and mobile. See the article: http://mashable.com/2011/11/02/internet-explorer-traffic-fall/

Twitter changes business of celebrity endorsements NEW YORK – Rapper Snoop Dogg gave props on Twitter to an ad for the Toyota Sienna minivan. Actress Tori Spelling linked to a website for rental cars. And reality TV star Khloe Kardashian soliloquized about the brand of jeans that accentuates the famous Kardashian derriere. "Want to know how Old Navy makes your butt look scary good? Ask a Kardashian," the reality TV star wrote, or tweeted, on the social media website. Of course, she capped off the reflection with a smiley face. These celebs aren't just writing about family cars and fashion choices for the heck of it. Stars can get paid big bucks — sometimes $10,000 or more per post — to pontificate about clothes, cars and movies in the 140 characters or less allowed per tweet. That's adds up to about $71 per character. Twitter, which in its five-year existence has reshaped how people shop, vote and start revolutions, is now changing the business of celebrity endorsements. Just as Match.com and eHarmony pair up singles for dates, a growing number of startup firms are hooking up companies with stars who get paid to praise products to their thousands — sometimes millions — of Twitter followers. The list of celebs and the things they hawk is long and getting longer all the time. The endorsements range from subtle to blatant; the celeb pairings from sensible to downright odd. Continue: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-03/celebrity-twitter-endorsements/51058228/1?loc=interstitialskip

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Join the World’s Biggest Virtual Baby Shower in Support of Children’s Health! We’re making history tomorrow and would love for you to be a part of it! Join the UN Foundation, ABC News, UNICEF, BabyCenter and The Motherhood for the “Million Moms Challenge Baby Shower for Global Good” - a live, 8-hour online party on Twitter and on BabyCenter beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET, tomorrow, Tuesday, November 8, 2011. At 9:00 a.m. ET, the UN Foundation, UNICEF, ABC News, and TheMotherhood will kick off the first topic hour of the party to talk about why children’s health is so important. The conversation will take place on Twitter (the hashtag is #amillionmoms) and via conference call with: Dr. Richard Besser, Chief Medical Editor, ABC News (@drrichardbesser & @ABC News), − Susan MacKay, Senior Communications for Development Specialist, UNICEF (@unicef) − Anita Sharma, Director of Millennium Development Goals Initiatives, UN Foundation (@unfoundation & @unfewec) − Emily McKhann, co-founder of TheMotherhood.com (@themotherhood & @emilymckhann) Please join us for the call and the Twitter party, 9:00 – 10:00 a.m ET, and bring your stories and questions: Join on the phone: U.S. line, please dial 1-800-311-9402 International callers, please dial 1-334-323-7224 Passcode: MOTHERS Join online: Go to http://tweetchat.com/room/amillionmoms Together we will raise awareness for underserved moms and children around the globe – and promote the Million Moms Challenge, a joint effort of ABC News and the UN Foundation with support from corporate sponsor Johnson & Johnson. During the hour, Twitter participants can win wonderful gifts, including an iPod Nano, a gift certificate from Neiman Marcus, an autographed cookbook by Jose Andres and Dolci Gelati custom flavors of your choice. I am so excited for this incredible conversation and hope you can be a part of it with me! P.S. If you’d like to help spread the word, we would LOVE it! Here’s a sample Tweet: Calling all moms! Join me for a global baby shower on Nov. 8 on #maternal & child health! http://bit.ly/vVyUxL #AMillionMoms"

Teens see cruelty, self-esteem in social media USAToday.com - More than 80% of teens who use social-media sites have witnessed others being mean or cruel on the sites — and about a quarter say they have had an interaction that resulted in a face-to-face confrontation later, a new report finds. A substantial percentage of teens — 41% — reported negative experiences online, says a report out today from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, which surveyed 799 kids ages 12 to 17 and a parent or guardian. But 65% of teens say they also have had an experience on a site that made them feel good about themselves, and 58% say a site has made them feel closer to another person. "For a lot of kids, mean, cruel behavior doesn't rise to the level of bullying," says Pew's Amanda Lenhart. Meanness and bullying often overlap, but the survey did not define the terms. "Online lives and offline lives are now merging more and more, and that's something parents have to be aware of," says Jim Steyer, founder of Common Sense Media, a non-profit that educates kids and families about media use. "There is still so much we don't know about how (social media) affects teens' social and emotional development." About 93% of teens surveyed say they have an account on Facebook, and 62% say the profile they use most often is set to be private so only their friends can see what they post. Read on: http://yourlife.usatoday.com/parenting-family/teen-ya/story/2011-11-09/Teens-on-social-media-Cruelty-but-also-esteem-building/51128246/1?loc=interstitialskip

Death, Destruction and the Packers: What Facebook Talked About in 2011 Osama bin Laden, Kate Middleton and Rihanna now have something in common. By Melissa Locker What were all your friends talking about on Facebook this year? Mostly some high-profile deaths, an impending natural disaster, the Royal Wedding, and the Green Bay Packers. On Tuesday, Facebook released their annual Memology report, which analyzes trends in status updates, including cultural trends, popular topics, and acronyms (WTF FB, quit looking at our updates). According to Mashable, in 2011, status updates (much like Yahoo! searches and Twitter hashtags) were a vaguely depressing potpourri of death, destruction, and joyous occasions. The death of Osama bin Laden topped the global status trend list, followed by the Packers winning the Super Bowl, the not-guilty verdict in the Casey Anthony trial, Charlie Sheen’s rants, the death of Steve Jobs, and rounding out the top five, the royal wedding of Kate Middleton to Prince William. What else had people running to Facebook to update their status? The sudden death of singer Amy Winehouse, the video game Call of Duty 3, the start of military operations in Libya and Hurricane Irene. This year’s Memology list also highlighted the fastest-growing trends in news, entertainment (Skrillex, anyone?), memes and sports. This year, football of the rest-of-the-world variety topped the list, along with the LA Lakers. In entertainment, the television show House, M.D., the Harry Potter films, singer Rihanna, the planking meme, and actress Megan Fox were the most talked (…er, typed) about on Facebook. As for those acronyms, 2011 was the year of LMS (like my status) and TBH, which stands for “to be honest.” In summary, TBH, we’re not sure what to make of all this, except that 2012 has a lot to live up to. Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/12/07/death-destruction-and-the-packers-what-facebook-talked-about-in-2011/#ixzz1fxDXV4vH

Twitter unveils massive site redesign USAToday.com - Social-networking hub Twitter will roll out a significant redesign of its Web and mobile platforms in coming weeks that promises to be "faster and simpler." They've launched a website and blog post to explain the future changes. The layout is cleaner, featuring tabs across the top of the screen: Home, Connect and Discover. Home hosts the main feed of Tweets from other users; Connect is where they can directly contact others; and Discover is where they can find popular topics or hashtags and view the activity of followed users. The redesign will roll out in the next few weeks, but mobile users can access the new look now by downloading and logging in to Twitter for either iPhone or Android. Keep reading: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/2011/12/twitter-unveils-massive-site-redesign/1?loc=interstitialskip

Resolutions! Five tech behaviors to drop in 2012 Doug Gross, CNN If your New Year's resolutions have lasted this long, congratulations. You're 1/366th of the way home. But it's not too late to throw a few more on the pile. And since half of us spend an hour or more online every day, according to the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project, it's worth considering a few Web resolutions to go along with those vows to drop some pounds or put down the smokes. Here are a few suggestions for digital behaviors you might want to resolve to drop in 2012. You can feel better about yourself while making the Web a happier place. Even this guy. Copy-and-pasted Facebook statuses Guess what? We can pretty much promise that even more than 97% of us won't copy and paste the Facebook status update that you copied and pasted from someone else (who, in turn, predicted that 97% of people wouldn't copy and paste it). First, some math. If 97% of Facebook's purported 800 million users don't copy and paste your status, that means that 24 million people will. Congratulations -- you just created one of the most popular things ever on Facebook. Seriously. Feel strongly about a cause? Write your thoughts about it. Once we've seen the same thing five or 10 times, we'll stop being sympathetic even if you're taking a stand against the cudgeling of baby seals or something. And the ones that claim to share some tidbit of shocking information? The vast majority are bunk. We'd say about 97% of them. Mangling the English language on Twitter We get that Twitter is meant to be quick. And that sometimes you have to tighten up the spelling to get your words of wisdom down to 140 characters or less. But for the love of Bieber (16 million followers), take five seconds to get "it's" and "its" or "they're," "there" and "their" right. You'll probably hold onto more followers in the new year if your tweets don't hurt their brains. And, if you're a celebrity, take the time to avoid reminding us that your clever dialogue came from a screenwriter or those meaningful lyrics were penned for you by a songwriter. Lame online comments We get it. When you combine "people" and "sheep," you get "sheeple." And, at some point, somebody probably felt proud of the new portmanteau he dreamed up to insult folks on the Web whose opinions differed from his own. (Pardon the pronoun ... but you know it was a guy.) Look ... the Internet gives us the ability to communicate in real time with people we've never met, all over the world. Is "This is Obama's fault" -- on a news story about a lost kitten -- really the best we can do? And don't get us started on "First!" We'd love to see online commenting take a step forward in 2012 and have people shoot for the kind of conversations we'd like to have if we were all sitting together over a cup of coffee or cold beer. But we'd settle for not seeing "LULZ" used as a noun. (Note: We're well aware this item guarantees that all the bad behavior we just mentioned will now appear in the comments below. Go for it if you must -- just don't think we didn't see it coming.) Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/02/tech/web/bad-tech-resolutions/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6

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Seeing Social Media More as Portal Than as Pitfall By PERRI KLASS, M.D. More than a hundred years ago, when the telephone was introduced, there was some hand-wringing over the social dangers that this new technology posed: increased sexual aggression and damaged human relationships. “It was going to bring down our society,” said Dr. Megan Moreno, a specialist in adolescent medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Men would be calling women and making lascivious comments, and women would be so vulnerable, and we’d never have civilized conversations again.” In other words, the telephone provoked many of the same worries that more recently have been expressed about online social media. “When a new technology comes out that is something so important, there is this initial alarmist reaction,” Dr. Moreno said. Indeed, much of the early research — and many of the early pronouncements — on social media seemed calculated to make parents terrified of an emerging technology that many of them did not understand as well as their children did. Whether about sexting or online bullying or the specter of Internet addiction, “much social media research has been on what people call the danger paradigm,” said Dr. Michael Rich, a pediatrician and the director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston. Though there are certainly real dangers, and though some adolescents appear to be particularly vulnerable, scientists are now turning to a more nuanced understanding of this new world. Many have started to approach social media as an integral, if risky, part of adolescence, perhaps not unlike driving. Researchers are also looking to Facebook, Twitter and the rest for opportunities to identify problems, to hear cries for help and to provide information and support. Dr. Rich, who sees many teenagers who struggle with Internet-related issues, feels strongly that it is important to avoid blanket judgments about the dangers of going online. “We should not view social media as either positive or negative, but as essentially neutral,” he said. “It’s what we do with the tools that decides how they affect us and those around us.” Dr. Moreno’s early research looked at adolescents who displayed evidence of risky behaviors on public MySpace profiles, posting photos or statements that referred to sexual activity or substance abuse. E-mails were sent to those adolescents suggesting that they modify their profiles or make them private. Girls were more likely to respond than boys, Dr. Moreno found, and sexual material was more likely than alcohol-related material to be removed. Her current research, by contrast, approaches social media as a window, an opportunity to understand and improve both physical and mental health. In a study of the ways college students describe sadness in status updates on their Facebook profiles, she showed that some such expressions were associated with depression in students who completed clinical screening tests. Since freshman year is a high-risk time for depression, many college resident advisers already try to use Facebook to monitor students, Dr. Moreno said. Perhaps it will be possible to help R.A.’s recognize red flags in the online profiles of their charges. Still, she acknowledged that this new strategy raised privacy concerns, asking, “How do you think about extending this to other at-risk groups in a way that still doesn’t feel like an invasion of privacy?” For example, can we help people in support groups take care of one another better through social media? Going back and forth, as I do these days, between the worlds of academic pediatrics and academic journalism, I am struck by the focus in both settings on the potential — and the risks — of social media and on the importance of understanding how communication is changing. Our children are using social media to accomplish the eternal goals of adolescent development, which include socializing with peers, investigating the world, trying on identities and establishing independence. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/health/views/seeing-social-media-as-adolescent-portal-more-than-pitfall.html?_r=2

'Traveling Red Dress' Movement Proves Social Media Foundation Is Still People, Empowerment Jennifer Leggio http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferleggio/2012/01/09/traveling-red-dress-movement-proves-social-media-foundation-is-still-people-empowerment/ Social business. Social media ROI. Social media monitoring. Social strategy. Welcome to a short snippet of the list of buzz words surrounding the business world’s attempt to capitalize on the socialsphere’s hyperactive boom. However, writer Jenny Lawson continues to prove that, at its core, social media is about people connecting with people, thus exemplified by her movement around the “Traveling Red Dress.” Lawson, best known to many as “The Bloggess,” initiated what has become known as the Traveling Red Dress in 2010 with a blog post about receiving a gorgeous red ball gown made by Sunny Haralson of Rubypearl, and then, in the spirit of “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,” passed the dress on to other women around the world who chronicled the dress’s journey. Her reason behind this was simple – she wanted people to remember that being outrageous can have deep-rooted rewards. She wrote: I want, just once, to wear a bright red, strapless ball gown with no apologies. I want to be shocking, and vivid and wear a dress as intensely amazing as the person I so want to be. And the more I thought about it the more I realized how often we deny ourselves that red dress and all the other capricious, ridiculous, overindulgent and silly things that we desperately want but never let ourselves have because they are simply ‘not sensible’. The Traveling Red Dress movement came back to life last week after Lawson wrote a powerful post “coming out” about her depression and anxiety disorder’s penchant to cause her to self-harm. Click the link above to read!

Google search undergoes 'most radical transformation ever' (CNN) -- Google search is about to get way more personal. In a change that's been called the "most radical transformation ever" to Google's search engine, the Mountain View, California, company on Tuesday announced an update called "Search, plus Your World," which causes Google's robots to incorporate data from its social network as well as the public Internet when delivering search results to people. "Search is pretty amazing at finding that one needle in a haystack of billions of Web pages, images, videos, news and much more," Google said in a blog post on Tuesday morning. "But clearly, that isn't enough. You should also be able to find your own stuff on the Web, the people you know and things they've shared with you, as well as the people you don't know but might want to ... all from one search box." The company added: "Search is simply better with your world in it." On the prominent blog Search Engine Land, Danny Sullivan writes that the updates fundamentally change the way Google's search engine functions, calling it the "most radical" change ever. "The new system will perhaps make life much easier for some people, allowing them to find both privately shared content from friends and family plus material from across the Web through a single search, rather than having to search twice using two different systems," he writes. "However, Search Plus Your World may cause some privacy worries, as private content may appear as if it is exposed publicly (it is not). It might also cause concern by making private content more visible to friends and family than those sharing may have initially intended." Keep reading: http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/10/tech/web/google-search-plus/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6