When it comes to making decisions, you’ve always trusted your friends to steer you in the right direction. Now we’re making it easy to bring your Facebook friends with you while you’re using Bing. Whether it’s helping you decide…
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Comments OffWhat do BP oil spill, the World Cup, and Miley Cyrus have in common? They are among the most-searched topics on Yahoo! this year. Today, the Yahoo! Year in Review returns for a look at what set society in motion this year through the lens of what people are searching for on Yahoo!.
On the 2010 [...]
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Badges are another way for you to express yourself on orkut, with different sets of badges for users that engage with orkut in different ways. For example, if you’ve been on orkut for a long time, you might get an Early User badge! Or, if you created a popular promotion, you might get a Promoter badge. Once you win a badge, it’s up to you if you want to display it on your profile or not.
There will be lots of badges available for you to collect, based on your interactions with orkut. Here’s an initial list of badges that we plan to make available over the coming weeks. Can you collect them all?
Also, keep an eye out for more, because who knows what other badges might show up around here? Imagination is the limit! 
Posted by Igor Cananea and Ranveer Kunal, software engineers
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On the orkut team, we’re thankful for a lot of things. We’re thankful for our families: our loving parents, siblings, spouses and children, who sometimes put up with our long hours at work. We’re also thankful to be able to work on a product we care deeply about and thankful that it brings happiness to so many people around the world.
Of course, we’re also incredibly thankful for all of you. We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: you guys are what powers orkut to be what it is today, and your feedback is our motivation to continue innovating. So thanks everyone– we really appreciate you!
Now it’s your turn. What are you thankful for? Send a group scrap to your friends or family and let them know. Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted by Barbara Veloso, user experience team
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Remove suggested groups
See a suggested group that you don’t really like? Not a problem, now you can easily remove it so it doesn’t show up again!
Move friends to different groups
Now you can select several friends from one group and add them to another. Just select multiple friends by pressing the 
key to drag and drop them into their new group:
To open the groups management page at anytime, just click the “+” button on the top of your homepage and select “manage groups“.
Hope you enjoy it, and let us know if you’d like to see more improvements in there.
Posted by Rodrigo Paiva, orkut operations team
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The Social Translate extension detects the language of your friends’ posts and then automatically translates it into a language of your choice. The extension allows you to select a primary language and a list of secondary languages you can read without translation (for any of you who speak more than one language).
You can also select two different modes of translation, “reliable” or “aggressive”. “Reliable” is set by default and will only translate feeds for which it’s confident of the translation. “Aggressive” might be a bit less accurate but will attempt to translate more posts.
Besides orkut, Social Translate also works with other social sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. It will help you stay engaged with your friends around the world who speak different languages, and it will also give you an opportunity to interact with people you might never have been able to, due to language barriers.
Give it a try!
Posted by Andrew Swerdlow and Nav Jagpal, software engineers
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Posted in Email, Google, Social Networks Tags: Blog, Blogspot, Bp, Button Style, Different Languages, Facebook, Friends Around The World, Google, Language Barriers, Modes, Nav, Orkut, Png, S320, Software Engineers, Swerdlow, Thumbnail, Translate, Translation Comments OffThe world’s largest Oktoberfest celebration takes place in Munich, Germany during the last few weeks of September and beginning of October, and regularly commands millions of visitors.
Even if you’re not able to make it to Munich this year or participate in any of the local celebrations going on near you, we wanted to offer you this special doodle to help you get into the spirit:
Hope you enjoy it!
Posted by Ariel, orkut operations team
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To enable it, click “Options” at the bottom of your orkut chat list, then “Chat Settings”. In the settings window that will open, check the “Enable high-resolution video” option, and you’re done! Right away, if you and and the friend you’re chatting to have both enabled this option, you will be video chat chatting in a much higher resolution.
And if you’ve never used video chat in orkut before, it’s really easy to get started. Once you have a webcam and a microphone, you just need to download a small plugin, available for free at www.google.com/chat/video
Oh, and for Linux users, we’re pleased to announce that video chat now supports Linux too. But don’t panic if you don’t see the high-resolution video checkbox – we’ve designed our Linux version from the ground up for this new feature, so it’s always on for you.
We hope you have fun chatting in high-resolution, and free to share your comments or report any issues you encounter in the video chat forum. Enjoy!
Posted by Tristan Schmelcher, Software Engineer
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Creating a new promotion is very easy. On your orkut homepage, click the “applications” drop-down menu, at the top of the page, and select “promote”. Then just choose the kind of promotion you want (text, image or video) and directly type an accompanying message. Keep the text field empty to create an image or video-only promotion.
So what are you waiting for? Visit the new orkut promote page and spread your message to the world!
Posted by Koji Pereira, user experience team
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Your fortunes are only visible to you, and if you don’t like one of them, you can either delete it or just ignore it until other updates take over the page.
If, for any reason, you don’t want to see your daily fortunes anymore, it’s easy to stop them by clicking on the “options” dropdown menu next to them and select “never show updates from this app”. Later on, if you have second thoughts about this and want your fortunes back, just open your orkut settings window and unhide the Fortune of the Day app at the “updates” tab.
Enjoy yours every day, and may you always be lucky!
Posted by Guilherme Trielli Ferreira, software engineer
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