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Google Labs just introduced a couple of interesting experimental features that you can test while performing a search on Google.

I subscribed to all of them and they look really nice.

Keyboard Navigation

Now you can easily navigate your search results as you are used to do on Google Reader. J/K lets you move to the previous/next search item then you can choose it by clicking enter.

Alternate views

This new features lets you choose different views of the search results page. Together with the standard list view, you now have the timeline view, the map view or the info view. In the first one, you will have a timeline which shows you what years are mentioned within the search results and how many results include that year; in the second one you will see a map with locations mentioned in the search results; in the info view you can see specific information related to your result, as shown in the image below.

Accessible view

This new view makes it easier to highlight, read and navigate through your search results. 

Unfortunately you can try only one of these new experiments at a time. I’m trying the alternate views, very useful (IMHO) especially for the timeline one. If you want to give it a try, just go to this page and choose the experiment you prefer. 

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Causal and not engaged one-shot readers or faithful subscribers? Well, no doubt, the latter.

I was noticing that while the number of pageviews of this blog is growing more and more (in the range of 1200-1500 / day) the number of RSS subscribers is quite frozen since I crossed 500 readers. Now it’s usually in the range 500-600, while I noticed that there are many recurring visitors that don’t use RSS but come straight to the website. Why ?!?

My invite is: SUBSCRIBE. With the new format of this blog, there will be news and articles which will be available for RSS subscribers only. Those will be tagged with the category “RSS Only” and I’ll not make them available to visitors. Those will be indexed by Google of course, but will become fresh content for subscribers only.

Here are some ways to subscribe. Just click one of the links below to subscribe with you default RSS reader or, my recommendation, Google Reader.

Generic RSS reader

There are many other methods to subscribe. If you want to get more information about RSS, take a look at this article, very well done, which explains what RSS is and how it can save you a lot of time letting you consume more news very quickly and effectively. That article basically responds to this question:

“I don’t have a lot of extra time but I find that blogs can eat up the little bit of time I do have. I find that some people don’t update their blog daily or even weekly but I can’t remember if I checked their blog today or I check again later in the day if they didn’t update. … Do you have a good way to set this up? I don’t subscribe to blogs either, because I don’t really understand why I would do that.”

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