Google Gets Social

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John Battelle’s Searchblog: Google Gets Social

“Who says Google doesn’t play the tagging, sharing, social search game? Not Google. Today it released a new version of its toolbar that’s very….well…Web 2.0. From SEW coverage: Google has enhanced its toolbar for Internet Explorer, introducing several new features that will appeal to regular users of the program. The new features include enhanced “suggestions” that appear on the fly as you type a query, the ability to add custom buttons to search your favorite sites, the ability to create and save online bookmarks and to share web pages with others. “One of the areas we wanted to focus on was to empower users more,” said Sundar Pichai, Google group product manager.”

<sounds interesting?>

White Paper

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Finally, on a Monday, the White Paper is published:

“The ‘Our health, our care, our say’ White Paper sets out a vision to provide people with good quality social care and NHS services in the communities where they live. NHS services are half way through a 10 year plan to become more responsive to patient needs and prevent ill health by the promotion of healthy lifestyles. Social care services are also changing to give service users more independence, choice and control.”