Thursday, May 03, 2007

New Feature: Orkut Topic Searcher

Okay, for those of you active on Orkut, this is probably old news for you, (especially if you do heavy searching on the forums) but for those of you who did not know, Google has recently added a new feature to Orkut, enabling users to search the "orkutsphere" for key phrases and words.

To access this feature from your homepage, click on the Search link above...



...which should bring you to the Universal Search page. After that, click on the Topics menu...



...then select your topic (in this case I choose banana).



After that, click the Search button, and Orkut will list every forum within its query (aka results of the search).



True to being a Google search, the cool thing about this is the ability to type in quotations around two words if you are looking for an exact phrase (like "banana rama").

Good job Google! Now if only we could have something similar for our scrapbooks...

8 opinions:

Sleepyface said...

great discovery! thanks!

(one of the first things i did was to search my profile link in the topics if i was any famous. looks like, i ain't yet famous :P)

but, you're doing a great job!

princeparas said...

I saw ur link in referals. I thought my blog link was posted onur blog.
But I didnt find it. anyways. Keep it up.

Devi Mahapatra said...

Dear sir, your posts are really intresting. I think u should post some thing related my post "orkut photos are now right click protected ; sure fun with no tension"

The link is

http://ivilla.blogspot.com/2007/05/orkut-photos-are-now-right-click.html

Darnell Clayton said...

Hey Devi and Princeparas,

Thanks for visiting!

To Prince Paras: Really? It may have either been a fluke from Google or you just mentioned Orkut on your site (Google has a tool that you can put in your sidebar that will bring up blog posts mentioning a certain word).

To Devi: Really? I don't see this anywhere. I have encountered what you are referencing to on Orkut, but only on one profile (which no longer exists). Which profile is it that you are seeing this on?

Orkut.etc.br said...

Hi dear,
Congratulations by the quality of your posts. This is the most interesting blog about Orkut in english. We publish in Brazil an online magazine about Orkut, at www.Orkut.etc.br, and we hope to put your content in our magazine, if you give us the permision.
Best regards,
Orkut.etc.br Team

Devi Mahapatra said...

darnell sir
i think that u hadn't gone trough my
post . i had mentioned that only the main photo in the profile is right click protected ,not the photos which are in the album...

...... thanks 4 replying

Darnell Clayton said...

To Devi: I am now starting to see this! Sorry about that! (I thought you were referring to all images in Albums, Forum Profiles, ect.).

I'll post about this ASAP. Thanks!

Devi Mahapatra said...

thanks darnell

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