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The quick answer listings in Google Search save a lot of time. They pull up the best possible answer to a query and display it on top of all search results, the answers are almost always spot on. What if you’re looking for more detail on a specific topic? Google says that its research indicates more than 10 percent of users need more than a quick answer to their queries every day, so that’s why it is updating Google search to show in-depth articles alongside quick answers. The results will include comprehensive papers, lengthy blog posts from both well known as well as less known publications and blogs.

The feature will be completely rolled out over the next few days, initially only available through google.com in English. For example, searching for censorship would bring up pieces from publications such as The Guardian and Wall Street Journal, so would searching about legos, population growth, art, engineering, e-waste and a lot more. Conventional search results will be shown alongside these in-depth articles, so if you don’t like what Google search displays in this particular section, you can always manually labor through the search results to find what you’re looking for.

Google Search Gets Updated To Show In-Depth Articles original content from Ubergizmo.

Firefox 23 was launched today, Mozilla has added a new feature that caters to the social aspect of browsing the internet. Recently Mozilla had announced Firefox social integration partners which included Facebook, Cliqz, Mixi and msnNow. They’ve now added an integrated share button in the browser’s toolbar which allows users to share interesting content directly from Firefox. It only works with Cliqz or Facebook Messenger for Firefox right now. Users will also be able to share content either through private message or email.

Mozilla says that more services will soon feature support for the integrated share button, it says that other websites will start supporting its social API soon as well. Mozilla says that there is endless potential for integration of social services related to music, sports, news, finance and even e-mail. It looks forward to integrating more social sites, services and apps into Firefox. Making a web browser “social,” can be a slippery slope, take the infamous Rockmelt web browser for example, which has recently been acquired by Yahoo. Their social web browser wasn’t exactly able to generate a substantial user base. There is a difference though, Rockmelt’s selling point was its social features, whereas Mozilla is providing new social features to a rigid user base that appreciates its web browser.

Firefox Gets An Integrated Share Button original content from Ubergizmo.

Music piracy has long been going on and even before the internet, where one could buy a cassette tape and record another copy of a legally purchased album. CD burning then came about and people began to make copies for friends and for profits, and with the introduction of the internet, well file-sharing became a whole lot easier and faster too. This is why we are not surprised that music labels are worried about piracy, although some studies have found that despite piracy, the music industry remains relatively unharmed. (more…)

Search Engines Not That Instrumental In Aiding Music Piracy, According To Study original content from Ubergizmo.

As with many free services, there’s often a paid option to along with them that offers a handful of new features and benefits that aren’t available otherwise to the free users. Feedly has so far offered a free version of its RSS reader, but today the company has unwrapped a paid version that gives users […]

At some point you might have heard about Yahoo’s shopping spree. It has picked up quite a lot of services recently, the biggest being Tumblr, for $1.1 billion. Rockmelt, which is a self titled “social” web browser, has now been acquired by Yahoo. The deal has already been confirmed by both companies, financial terms were not disclosed. AllThingsD believes that Yahoo may have paid between $60 to $70 million for Rockmelt.

From now on Rockmelt will no longer be accepting any new users. Moreover, its four mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone will be shutdown on August 31st. Users have until then to export their data. Rockmelt said that it thanks its users for teaching them “a ton” and that they will put everything that they have learned to use working for Yahoo. Only a few months ago Rockmelt had announced that it would cease working on its browser project and instead focus on its mobile apps. The Rockmelt browser experience brought a user’s Facebook content as well as friend right beside all of the websites that they visited, but this “social” web browsing failed to generate a substantial user base. Yahoo says that it can’t wait to integrate Rockmelt’s technology in their platform to deliver best experience to its customers in new and exciting ways.

Yahoo Acquires Rockmelt, To Kill All Its Apps In One Month original content from Ubergizmo.