Usability Quote of the Day

February 9, 2012

Most people who encounter computer-based automation at work do not choose the software with which they work, and have comparatively little control over when and how they do what they do. For them, the use of computers can be an oppressive experience, rather than a liberating one. -- Sarah Kuhn, Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996    (via interaction-design.org)

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Google Tackles Search Memory in Beta Service

Google wants to be more than a way of searching for Web pages, the search company says: It wants to become an extension of a user's online memory.

To achieve that goal, Google on Wednesday launched a personalized Web search service that stores users' search histories, builds individualized search data into Web results and suggests related searches.

Called My Search History, the service, currently being beta tested, is available through Google Labs, the company's site for service prototypes. With the search-history release, Google Inc. joins competitors such as Ask Jeeves Inc., Amazon.com Inc.'s A9.com and Yahoo Inc. in attempting to make search more personal. (Via eWeek)

Works with a regular search. Just hit "My Search" at the top of the page.

Google Search History - User Interface Design, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Ergonomics

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