Google’s just rolled out two new features — answer highlights in search results and rich snippets for events — in the ongoing process to improve the underlying technology and functionality of its core product: Search.

While the technology behind these updates is quite sophisticated, the actual purpose is simple: to actually provide answers instead of just results to your Google search queries.

The first new feature, answer highlighting, attempts to complete your search query by bolding the answer in the result. So now when you search, results will include bold words that Google deems to be the answer. This is a nifty little development — powered by Google Squared research — that’s especially handy and convenient, as prior to the feature update Google was simply bolding search keywords.

As Google admits, answer highlighting won’t work with all your queries, but it is very effective with searches around information that could fit in a table. Hence the inspiration and use of Google Squared data. Try it out on “empire state height” and you should actually get the height of the Empire State Building in bold at the top of the results page.

The second update — rich snippets for events — is more for webmasters, but the net benefit is that Google will now better answer your event-related queries. Should webmasters annotate their pages to support the new format, you’ll find that your event search will return more pertinent data. So results with events will show all events as snippets under the master listing broken up into individual links that highlight the event name, date and location.

Both of these updates are subtle on the surface and will probably go unnoticed by the average searcher. Should the newly applied technology work as promised, however, these updates could help continue to distinguish Google Search from all the rest.

Technology has played an important role not only in getting relief to those affected by the Haiti earthquake, but in getting information out about how the quake affected the island nation.

CNN contributes a new series of immersive information visualizations in these 360 degree panoramic videos, where you can completely control the camera’s view during playback as well as zoom in and out.

Shot over the last week in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, the videos are powered by technology from Immersive Media — the same company that helped power much of Google’s Street View.

Have a look at the interactive videos at full size and let us know what you think.

Back in May of this year we had published a story stating that the website and retailer GeekIT had started a website that allows users to register their mobile handset’s IMEI numbers. For some strange reason though we’ve been getting a lot of traffic with readers leaving their IMEI numbers in our comments, which is not a good idea since we can’t do this for you as it requires you to enter your own personal information on the site.

For those who wish to register their handsets here’s the link you need to use -
http://www.imeidata.com/

When Google asked what you liked and disliked about their new real-time communication application, you unquestionably said that you wanted more invites to share with friends and family. Problem solved.

Today, Google decided to play Santa with Wave invites. It has just doled out significantly more invites to existing users.

In conjunction with the invite rollout, Google is also hinting that they’ll soon reach the one million user mark. The title of their post suggestively indicates that “a million stamps” have been licked, which we take to mean that they’ve now opened up Google Wave to a million users.

While invites may be more readily available, be forewarned: Google is still not ready to graduate the service from preview phase to beta stage. Still, we’re excited that more of you can get in on the shared experience that is Google Wave.

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Soungle is a free site that allows users to easily find and search sound effects and musical instruments samples along our huge online library. Every sound downloaded from our database is completely free.

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SoundBible.com is the encyclopedia of free sound effects and may just be the last sample resource you’ll ever need. We offer royalty free sounds for video editors, movie sc…

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The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs. This is what sets freesound apart from other splendid libraries like ccMixter.

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With more than 350 million users, Facebook is winning the social networking race by a landslide. But another area they’re winning big (in large part due to that growth) is in portable identity, where their Facebook Connect platform competes with offerings from Google, Twitter and MySpace.

Today, Facebook is getting a massive new partner for Connect: Yahoo. The #2 search engine, which is also one of the world’s most visited Web sites, announced that it will be rolling out Facebook Connect on numerous Yahoo properties that in the aggregate represent tens of millions of users worldwide.

Yahoo says that Connect will be integrated on its Mail, News, Sports, and Finance sites, as well as Flickr, allowing users to do things like leave comments, share news stories, and view friends’ feeds by using their Facebook account on Yahoo. Like any Connect-powered service, Yahoo benefits by that activity being shared back on the Facebook news feed, which in turn drives traffic to Yahoo.

This is a no-brainer for Yahoo, who has been trying for years to make its services more social on its own. Now, they’ll start to see some of the benefits that smaller publishers have seen from Facebook Connect (more comments, extra traffic from Facebook, etc.) on a massive scale. The new features are expected to launch next year.

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Way back in April, Google relaunched Google Labs, the place where the company tests its new and experimental features. When it relaunched, it added a very interesting experimental feature to Google Image Search: Similar Images.

A recap if you don’t remember similar images: it utilizes image recognition technology to help filter search results. If you find an action shot of soccer/football star David Beckham and want to find more like it, for example, you can use Similar Images to filter your results and find similar images.

The feature has been in Google Labs for over half a year, but that’s no longer the case. Google has announced that Similar Images has now become a standard feature of Google Image search.

It was only a matter of time until Similar Images made its debut in Google Search. It’s a very useful and surprisingly accurate feature that really helps you filter images. We can expect to see a lot of users utilizing this feature very soon.

If you’ve been following the Pirate Bay drama, you know that this site will never be what it used to be. However, amidst all that hubbub and even after the (so far) unsuccessful sale of the site, the actual site remained operational.

Thus, many users who were there just for the torrents perhaps didn’t even notice that something is wrong. This is about to change. TorrentFreak reports that the Amsterdam court ruled that The Pirate Bay must remove all copyrighted torrents from the site within three months.

The Dutch court initially ruled that Pirate Bay must block access to Dutch citizens; a decision which the site’s founders decided to appeal. It worked to some extent, as that judgment has now been nullified, but the Court now decided that The Pirate Bay – while not guilty of copyright infringement – is guilty of assisting copyright infringement, a phrase we hear a lot in cases such as this one.

Now, Dutch anti-piracy body BREIN will supply a list of copyrighted works to The Pirate Bay, and the operators of the site must remove them within three months, facing a fine of $7,500 per person, per day.

The problem with this decision is the fact that The Pirate Bay has always refused to admit any guilt of copyright infringement and has probably never had plans to devise a system for removing copyrighted works from its servers. With a bunch of lawsuits looming over the founders, they’ll probably have to comply with BREIN’s requests and stop users from uploading new torrents whatsoever. The Pirate Bay can choose to appeal this decision, too, but the lawsuits are piling up. Although The Pirate Bay founders always claimed that the site can live on without them, in the end simply shutting it down might be the least painful route for everyone.