Google Social Search Update

Recently Google announced an update for Google social search. This new update needs the user to get logged on to Google before he/she searches a term. Google has started making and is supposed to appear in the coming week.

When you search a term in Google, search results will also show content that are shared by your friends. For example, if you search the term 'climbing Kilimanjaro' and your friend has a blog about the same, then the search results will show the blogpost results from that friend.

This also includes updated from sites like Twitter and other social sites. Google will include all those updates that are public and are easy to crawl. However, this update excludes the sites like Facebook because status updates and other posts are not public.

This search engine news have however created some concern about publicising some content on these social sites. Many people would not like everybody to know what they have posted publicly. Google has however enabled an option for user. This will help user to control their Google profile and allow them to connect or disconnect the accounts that they want.

Foodly: A Search Engine and Social Network for Food Lovers

Foodly  is a search engine and a social network for recipes lovers. Foodly stands for Food I Love You and was launched by two Yahoo! alums - Andrea Cutright and Hillary Mickell. Foodly shortly after its launched, were in discussions all over the search engine news and stories. According to LA Times, Foodly has also picked $5 million of investments from Index venture.

Foodly boasts to be the most advanced recipe search engine in the world. The unique feature of searching a recipe without particular ingredients makes it stand aprat from other websites like Allrecipes.com or Yelp. Moreover, it is added with heavy social network aspect like Facebook. Users can like recipes of Foodly and check out with their friends and their dishes. Also a user can plan a menu and invite their friends for their recipe. You can do this by creating an event on the Facebook page.

The interface of Foodly is beautiful. When you search a recipe, it gives options to save and like that recipe. You can also see various other details like cooking time, ingredients and the source of the recipe. You also have an option to rate a recipe you like.

Andrea Cutright and Hillary Mickell are happy and are looking forward for this site. Andrea says in Foodly Blog - We are extremely proud to bring this social aspect of cooking to our online lives. Because food — like life — is even better when shared.