Google Launches New Experimental Search Features For Tracking

Written by Anurag | Dec 20, 2012 6:30:00 PM

Google has long been running a number of experimental Search and Gmail field trials anybody can sign up for and today it’slaunching a few nifty new search features for searching your Gmail inbox from Google.com on the desktop and your iOS or Android phone. Previously, Google already let you find you flights by using the [my flights] search operator, but now you can also use queries like [my purchases] to find your latest Amazon acquisitions and track they packages they are coming in. Read Google Launches New Experimental Search Features For Tracking Your Online Purchases, Reservations & Events From Gmail
Sometimes you need to message a non-friend, and today Facebook starts testing if it can make a little money and cut spam by asking you to pay to ensure the recipient sees that message. Facebook’s also changing everyone’s privacy settings into dynamic filters that let “relevant” messages through. These moves address Facebook’s old settings that caused important messages to sometimes go unseen. Read Facebook Tries Letting You Pay To Guarantee Message Delivery, Changes Messaging Privacy Settings
Redmond is focusing on efforts to extend Visual Studio and Azure instead. Read Microsoft killing off Expression suite of Web and design tools

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