Google Merges Search and Google+ Into Social Media Juggernaut

[ via Mashable ] 10 Jan

Now we know Google’s master-plan for integrating Google+ ever more deeply into the Google ecosystem: Pour the whole thing into Google search. Starting today, Google+ members, and to a lesser extent others who are signed into Google, will be able to search against both the broader web and their own Google+ social graph. That’s right; Google+ circles, photos, posts and more will be integrated into search in ways other social platforms can only dream about, writes Lance Ulanoff at Mashable.

Google calls the search update “Search Across Your World.” Jack Menzel, product management director of search, explained that now Google+ members will be able to “search across information that is private and only shared to you, not just the public web.”

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Google Reveals The Most Popular Search Terms Of 2011

[ via Business Insider ] 21 Dec

Google just turned in its "annual report" of sorts as it has for the past several years in the form of Zeitgeist.

After sorting through billions of search terms, Google reveals the most popular things people searched for in 2011.

From pop culture to natural disaster, here are the 10 fastest rising search terms in the world for the year to date (to be read from least to best liked).

1. iPad2
2. Steve Jobs
3. TEPCO
4. Adele
5. iPhone 5
6. Battlefield 3
7. Casey Anthony
8. Ryan Dunn (of "Jackass" fame)
9. Google+
10. Rebecca Black (of YouTube fame)

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85-year-old says she was strip searched at JFK

[ Yahoo News ] 4 Dec

An 85-year-old woman said Saturday that she was injured and humiliated when she was strip searched at an airport after she asked to be patted down instead of going through a body scanner. 

Lenore Zimmerman, in wheel chair, said she was taken to a private room and made to take off her pants and other clothes after she asked to forgo the screening because she worried it would interfere with her defibrillator. She missed her flight and had to take one 2 1/2 hours later.

However, her allegations are denied by transportation security officials.

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