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Bing – Moving in the Right Direction

Bing has been out now for a couple of days and everyone’s written their viewpoints on the new search engine from Microsoft. It’s a nice, new, clean design for Microsoft and their search, but it’s very similar to their Live Search that’s been out for awhile.

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I’ve watched the video that was released about Bing and I’ve used the new search decision engine a few different times. My viewpoint is that it’s now really anything astonishingly new or different. I’m sure the logarithms behind everything are pretty cool, but as an end-user, it’s all about the end result of my search and if I find what I was looking for right?

The one thing that always surprises me about searching for items on different search engines is that the order and results displayed always surprises me.

I will say that the way Bing organizes and even pre-organizes what you may be searching for is a nice touch. Microsoft I like what you’re doing and where you appear to be heading, but I just don’t see anything here that’s going to draw me away from Google search anytime soon.

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Yellowstone Video from Still Camera

For some reason my path has been crossing with Yellowstone National Park here lately. I’ve had a friend tell me about hiking it recently. There’s been a special about Yellowstone on the Discovery Channel and now I’ve come across this video about Yellowstone on Vimeo.

[vimeo video=4923427]

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Facebook Quizzes Be Banned!

I’ve spent quite a bit of time lately trying to get rid of all the quizzes that have been hitting my Facebook pages from people. I’ve blogged about one way to get rid of them, which has been working well for me, but today I got another suggestion on how to ban them from even displaying on my page in the first place.

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You can follow the instructions below that were given to me by Papa Roux on Facebook. He operates a cajun restaurant here in Indianapolis, but he’s serving up more than great food with this tip.

If it’s not enough reason jus because they’re annoying, here’s an article from PC World about the other reason these quizzes are doing more than just giving you a bit of an insight to your friends on Facebook. There is a cost with The Hidden Secrets of Online Quizzes.

facebook-status-updates-options What he shares isn’t too complex but it’s also not as immediately obvious as you would expect either.

If you look at your Facebook homepage you’ll see sets of small buttons that are the different types of updates you’ll see in your updates main page.

On the left-hand side you’ll see something similar to what appears on my sidebar. I’ve got a lot of groups specified, but you get the idea.

Just click and drag the items to the top of the list you are most interested in seeing in your stream. I prefer Status Updates, and photos and Links.

My least preferred item at the moment are all those quizzes, which appear as part of the news feed updates. I’ve moved this to the bottom of my list. So far it’s helped bury those quizzes out of view even more.

If you’ve got more tips on how to get rid of what you don’t want on you Facebook stream, be sure and let us know in the comments.