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At Google, we continually strive to improve our algorithms to keep search results relevant and clean. You have been supporting us on this mission by sending spam reports for websites that violate our Webmaster Guidelines, using the spam report form in Google Webmaster Tools. While you might not see changes right away, we take your reports seriously and use them to fine-tune our algorithms -- the feedback is much appreciated and helps us to protect the integrity of our search results. We also take manual action on many of these spam reports. A recent blog post covers more information on how to identify webspam.

For those of you who regularly report spam, or would like to do so, we’ve now published a Chrome extension for reporting spam that makes the process more convenient and simple. The extension adds “Report spam” links to search results and your Web History, taking you directly to the spam report form and autocompleting some form fields for you. With this extension, Google’s spam report form is always just one click away.

The Google Webspam Report Chrome extension provides further tools to help you quickly fill out a spam report:

• a browser button to report the currently viewed page
• an option to retrieve recent Google searches from your Chrome history
• an option to retrieve recently visited URLs from your Chrome history

As before, you need to be logged into your Google Account to report spam. You can find a more detailed walkthrough of the use cases and features in this presentation and on the Chrome Extensions Gallery page, where you can also provide feedback and suggestions. We hope that you find this extension useful and that you continue to help us fight spam.

The extension is available in 16 languages. If your Chrome browser is set to a language supported by the extension, it will automatically use the localized version, otherwise defaulting to English.

Note: We care about your privacy. The Google Webspam Report Chrome extension allows you to access your personal Chrome history for the purpose of reporting spam, but does not send data retrieved from it to our servers. The source code of the extension has been published under an open source license.

Posted by Manuel Holtz, Support Engineer, Search Quality teamthis is a topic published in 2013... to get contents for your blog or your forum, just contact me at: devnasser@gmail.com

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By Yang Li, Research Scientist

Gesture Search from Google Labs now has an API. You can use the API to easily integrate Gesture Search into your Android apps, so your users can gesture to write text and search for application-specific data. For example, a mobile ordering application for a restaurant might have a long list of menu items; with Gesture Search, users can draw letters to narrow their search.


Another way to use Gesture Search is to enable users to select options using gestures that correspond to specific app functions, like a touch screen version of keyboard shortcuts, rather than forcing hierarchical menu navigation.

In this post, I’ll demonstrate how we can embed Gesture Search (1.4.0 or later) into an Android app that enables a user to find information about a specific country. To use Gesture Search, we first need to create a content provider named CountryProvider, according to the format required by Android Search framework. This content provider consists of 238 country names.

Then, in GestureSearchAPIDemo, the main activity of the app, we invoke Gesture Search when a user selects a menu item. (Gesture Search can be invoked in other ways depending on specific applications.) To do this, we create an Intent with the action "com.google.android.apps.gesturesearch.SEARCH" and the URI of the content provider. If the data is protected (for example, see AndroidManifest.xml), we also need to grant read permission for the content URI to Gesture Search. We then call startActivityForResult to invoke Gesture Search.

public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu);
    menu.add(0, GESTURE_SEARCH_ID, 0, R.string.menu_gesture_search)
        .setShortcut('0', 'g').setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_search);
    return true;
  }

  @Override
  public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
      case GESTURE_SEARCH_ID:
        try {
          Intent intent = new Intent();
          intent.setAction("com.google.android.apps.gesturesearch.SEARCH");
          intent.setData(SuggestionProvider.CONTENT_URI);
          intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);
          intent.putExtra(SHOW_MODE, SHOW_ALL);
          intent.putExtra(THEME, THEME_LIGHT);
          startActivityForResult(intent, GESTURE_SEARCH_ID);
        } catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
          Log.e("GestureSearchExample", "Gesture Search is not installed");
        }
        break;
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
  }

In the code snippet above, we also specify that we want to show all of the country names when Gesture Search is brought up by intent.putExtra(SHOW_MODE, SHOW_ALL). The parameter name and its possible values are defined as follows:

/** 
   * Optionally, specify what should be shown when launching Gesture Search.
   * If this is not specified, SHOW_HISTORY will be used as a default value.
   */
  private static String SHOW_MODE = "show";
  /** Possible values for invoking mode */
  // Show the visited items
  private static final int SHOW_HISTORY = 0;
  // Show nothing (a blank screen)
  private static final int SHOW_NONE = 1;
  // Show all of date items
  private static final int SHOW_ALL = 2;

  /**
   * The theme of Gesture Search can be light or dark. 
   * By default, Gesture Search will use a dark theme.
   */
  private static final String THEME = "theme";
  private static final int THEME_LIGHT = 0;
  private static final int THEME_DARK = 1;

  /** Keys for results returned by Gesture Search */
  private static final String SELECTED_ITEM_ID = "selected_item_id";
  private static final String SELECTED_ITEM_NAME = "selected_item_name";

As you can see in the code, when Gesture Search appears, we can show a recently selected country name, or nothing. Gesture Search then appears with a list of all the country names. The user can draw gestures directly on top of the list and a target item will pop up at the top. When a user taps a country name, Gesture Search exits and returns the result to the calling app. The following method is invoked for processing the user selection result, reading the Id and the name of the chosen data item.

@Override
  protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
      switch (requestCode) {
        case GESTURE_SEARCH_ID:
          long selectedItemId = data.getLongExtra(SELECTED_ITEM_ID, -1);
          String selectedItemName = data.getStringExtra(SELECTED_ITEM_NAME);
          // Print out the Id and name of the item that is selected 
          // by the user in Gesture Search
          Log.d("GestureSearchExample", selectedItemId + ": " + selectedItemName);
          break;
      }   
    }
  }

To use the Gesture Search API, you must be sure Gesture Search is installed. To test this condition, catch ActivityNotFoundException as shown in the above code snippet and display a MessageBox asking the user to install Gesture Search.

You can download the sample code at http://code.google.com/p/gesture-search-api-demo.

Yang Li builds interactive systems to make information easily accessible anywhere anytime. He likes watching movies and spending quality time with his family.

Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

2013, By: Seo Master