A key element of Meta’s metaverse push is the use of digital avatars in more ways, as it looks to turn these virtual representations into more habitual interaction tools, in all aspects. The main platform in this regard is VR, with users interacting via their cartoonish proxies within wholly immersive spaces. But Meta also wants […]
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Oh wow, Instagram Reels is trying to be even more like TikTok you say? What a surprise. Instagram’s currently tweaking the design of the main reels screen in the appwith users in India now seeing a new ‘Following’ tab alongside the main Reels feed. As you can see in this example, posted by app researcher […]
I still don’t know about Twitter Spaces. Sure, it’s got its own tab in the app, and definitely there are some interesting use cases for live audio. But I’m not sure that Twitter has really tapped into them as yet – or at least, I’m not seeing enough active, engaging spaces come up in my […]
Google is continuing its mobile search user interfaces with more variations of its grid search results format and full width video search result snippets. Grid Search Results Format We actually covered the grid search results format several weeks ago but according to Brian Freiesleben, this new version links the images in the results to the […]
Before I start, just a reminder, this was pre-recorded and schedules to go live as I am offline today for Passover. That being said, it was a busy week with a lot of Google search ranking volatility this week, both on April 18th and April 21st or so. Google published its 2021 web spam report […]
Microsoft has been busy testing variations of explore features in Bing Search. Here is one showing a side bar menu that expands and when clicked on, takes you into Bing Image Search. The GIF below is from Khushal Bherwani who posted this on Twitter: You can see the side bar menu expands out, and then […]
Google seems to be testing a web search feature for the image pack that keeps you within web search when you click on a specific image. Punit shared a screenshot the other day (not on April Fools) of how Google placed the larger image preview on the right of the web search image pack results. […]
Google seems to be testing a specialized local pack that looks more like the local service ads. Maybe this is a bug because the ads are not labeled or maybe Google is testing free local service listings? The local pack design looks more like local service ads and gives you the option to refine the […]
This week was pretty busy, we had the third Google product reviews update and I go deep into this algorithm update. We saw what I called a Spring 2022 Google search update, Google did not confirm it and it was unrelated to the product reviews update. Google released some data on how search improved, how […]
Reddit has launched an interesting experiment which essentially provides advice and ratings on contributors to subreddits, enabling more context as to how the user has contributed in the past. As you can see in this example, Reddit has launched a new test of what it’s calling ‘Mod Notes‘, which enables moderators to create informational notes […]