So many diseases with similar symptoms, I think this won’t much help?

So many people in the US search for health information on a monthly basis; Google has seen these queries up close and recently concluded that it this won’t much help of servicing them. Google introducing improved results that shortens the time from symptom-related search to discovery of potential medical causes and conditions

Google Chief Health Strategist Roni Zeiger, MD, explains in an insidesearch blog post announcing the new symptom-related search results:

“To make the process easier, now when you search for a symptom or set of symptoms, you'll often see a list of possibly related health conditions that you can use to refine your search. The list is generated by our algorithms that analyze data from pages across the web and surface the health conditions that appear to be related to your search”

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For example, if you search for [headache], you’ll be able to quickly see some potentially related conditions and learn more about them by clicking on the links in the list.

The list of health conditions you see is aggregated from what’s written on the web about the symptoms you searched. The list is not authored by doctors and of course is not advice from medical experts.

"Does this will much help considering that so many diseases with similar symptoms?"

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Set Up Chrome with Your Google Account

You can save your bookmarks, extensions, apps, theme, and browser preferences to your Google Account so that they are available on any computer you’re using. That way, you can have the same web experience everywhere. When you sign in to Chrome, your Google Chrome settings on that computer are saved to your Google Account. When you sign in to the same account on another computer, Google Chrome makes your saved settings available on that computer. Any changes you make to your browser settings will be synced to the Google Account you've used to sign in to Chrome. Changes you make on one computer are automatically reflected on the other computers where you're signed in and have enabled sync. To keep your information secure, synced data is encrypted when it travels between your computer and Google’s servers. As an added layer of protection, by default your saved passwords are encrypted on your computer and on Google’s servers using a cryptographic key. You also have the option to encrypt all your synced data. You can remove your synced data from your Google Account at any time,

Remember; do not set up Chrome with your Google Account on a public or untrusted computer. When you set up Chrome with your Google Account, a copy of your data is stored on the computer you're using and can be accessed by other users on the same computer. To remove your data, delete the user you are signed in as.

This article applies to Google Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS.

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Facebook new photo viewer isn’t this similar to Google+

Ever since Google+ launched, Facebook has been improving its service. Facebook has started rolling out a new photo viewer that looks like what Google+ currently offers: image on the left and everything else on the right. Start from Last week, Facebook started testing at least three different variants of a new photo viewer, all of which looked like Google+ currently offers: image on the left and everything else on the right.

The image is on the left and the comments are on the right. It’s means photos shown can be even larger maximum resolution was 960 x 960, and now users can finally take full advantage, since all the precious vertical space can be put to use.

On the desktop, Facebook has more room horizontally than vertically, so it makes sense to have all extra information and comments on the side, so users don’t have to scroll down to see all the comments. All the designs reportedly offer a cleaner interface than Facebook’s existing photo viewer, and put the focus on the photo and the conversation around it. The ads have also been relocated to the right side, but on the other hand they are now pushed down by the photo’s comments.

when you hover over an image previous and next arrows appear, outlined “Like” and “Tag Photo” buttons show up, as does the title of the album, and which photo you’re currently viewing out of how many. The new photo viewer also darkens the background of the Facebook webpage while you are viewing an album, rather than just making it transparent.Not sure if all Facebook’s users have the new feature. Facebook does all of its rollouts gradually, so it’s very possible that many still don’t have it.

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January Google’s Search Update: Panda algorithm update, Fresher results, Faster autocomplete and more...

Google has decided to push out its monthly update of search tweaks from the prior month. Here’s the latest installment of the January update is out and it contains a few interesting thing.

• Fresher results. [launch codename “nftc”] We made several adjustments to the freshness algorithm that we released in November. These are minor updates to make sure we continue to give you the freshest, most relevant results.
• Faster autocomplete. [launch codename “Snappy Suggest”, project codename “Suggest”] We made improvements to our autocomplete system to deliver your predicted queries much faster.
• Autocomplete spelling corrections. [launch codename “Trivial”, project codename “Suggest”] This is an improvement to the spelling corrections used in autocomplete, making those corrections more consistent with the spelling corrections used in search. This launch targets corrections where the spelling change is very small.
• Better spelling full-page replacement. [launch codenames “Oooni”, “sgap”, project codename “Full-Page Replacement”] When we’re confident in a spelling correction we automatically show results for the corrected query and let you know we’re “Showing results for [cheetah]” (rather than, say, “cheettah”). We made a couple of changes to improve the accuracy of this feature.
• Better spelling corrections for rare queries. This change improves one of the models that we use to make spelling corrections. The result is more accurate spell corrections for a number of rare queries.
• Improve detection of recurrent event pages. [launch codename “neseda”] We made several improvements to how we determine the date of a document. As a result, you’ll see fresher, more timely results, particularly for pages discussing recurring events.
• High-quality sites algorithm improvements. [launch codenames “PPtl” and “Stitch”, project codename “Panda”] In 2011, we launched the Panda algorithm change, targeted at finding more high-quality sites. We improved how Panda interacts with our indexing and ranking systems, making it more integrated into our pipelines. We also released a minor update to refresh the data for Panda.
• Cross-language refinements. [launch codename Xiangfan] Previously, we only generated related searches based on the display language. With this change, we also attempt to auto-detect the language of the original query to generate related search queries. Now, a user typing a query in French might see French query refinements, even if her language is set to English.
• English on Google Saudi Arabia. Users in Saudi Arabia can now more easily choose an English interface to search on google.com.sa.
• Improved scrolling for Image Search. Previously when you scrolled in Image Search, only the image results would move while the top and side menus were pinned in place. We changed the scrolling behavior to make it consistent with our main search results and the other search modes, where scrolling moves the entire page.
• Improved image search quality. [launch codename “endearo”, project codename “Image Search”] This is a small improvement to our image search ranking algorithm. In particular, this change helps images with high-quality landing pages rank higher in our image search results.
• More relevant related searches. Sometimes at the bottom of the screen you’ll see a section called “Searches related to” with other queries you may want to try. With this change, we’ve updated the model for generating related searches, resulting in more useful query refinements.
• Blending of news results. [launch codename “final-destination”, project codename “Universal Search”] We improved our algorithm that decides which queries should show news results, making it more responsive to realtime trends. We also made an adjustment to how we blend news results in Universal Search. Both of these changes help news articles appear in your search results when they are relevant.
• Automatically disable Google Instant based on computer speed. [project codename “Psychic Search”] Google Instant has long had the ability to automatically turn itself off if you’re on a slow internet connection. Now Instant can also turn itself off if your computer is slow. If Instant gets automatically disabled, we continue to check your computer speed and will re-enable Instant if your performance improves. We’ve also tweaked search preferences so you can always have Instant on or off, or have it change automatically.

That’s a quick overview of about half of the January tweaks on Google’s algorithm update,full list on Google’s Inside Search blog.

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RIM Launches BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365

BlackBerry Business Cloud Services provides mobile access to email, calendaring and organizer data with Exchange Online. The RIM-hosted version of the service is taking the place of the Microsoft-hosted BlackBerry Enterprise Service for Office 365 Standard users. (Microsoft will continue offering a Microsoft-hosted version of BES for Office 365 Dedicated users only.)

RIM is launch BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365. This new cloud-based option allows customers to cost-effectively support mobility across their organizations and easily manage and secure their BlackBerry deployments,” said Alan Panezic, Vice President, Enterprise Product Management and Marketing at Research In Motion. “We continue to build upon the end-to-end BlackBerry solution for our business and government customers with both on-premise and cloud-based solutions, a range of technical support options to suit any size organization, and a growing ecosystem of apps and services for users.”

“Microsoft’s partnership with RIM exemplifies our commitment to providing customers with the best productivity experience across the PC, browser and phone,” said Julia White, Senior Director of Microsoft's Exchange Product Management Group. “The availability of BlackBerry Business Cloud Services is great news for Office 365 and BlackBerry customers who want to get the maximum benefit from these two business collaboration services.”

BlackBerry Business Cloud Services offers advanced administration and flexible smartphone self-service features to support an organization’s BlackBerry deployment in the cloud. Key features include:

• Wireless synchronization with Microsoft Exchange Online email, calendar and organizer data from a BlackBerry smartphone
• BlackBerry® Balance™ technology, which presents a unified view of work and personal content on a BlackBerry smartphone while keeping the content separate and secure
• An intuitive web-based console for IT administrators to provision, manage and secure BlackBerry smartphones from anywhere
• Online access to employee self-service smartphone security functions, allowing users to easily reset a device password or remotely lock or wipe a device in the event of loss or theft

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