Safety Filter on Orkut : Get rid of mature content

Orkut, Google's social networking site, comes up with new and unique feature called "Safety Filter". Safety filter tries to hide mature contents from users. Users can turn on or turn off this filter from settings page.



Lets see how it works by example.

Currently safety filter of my profile is turn off and I tried to search for 'sex' keyword. I will get result page shown as following image. Obviously profiles/communities with bad contents will come in the search result.



Now lets turn on the safety filter from settings page and try to search for 'sex' key word again.



You can see change in the search results. Obviously it will give profiles/communities which contain 'sex' keyword. But if you look at the first profile which comes first in the search result, that profile contains no mature content. That is the work of Safety Filter.



We can conclude that safety filter works pretty decently but not for all the cases. There are some cases in which we find mature profiles/communities in search result. Help center page of orkut also mentioned that "it is not possible to filter out all the mature content". I would like to say that Safety filter works very well and hope it will become more and more robust as time pass.

As a good orkut users it is our responsibility to make orkut clean as well. If we find any bad/mature content while safety filter is on, we should flag that profile/community to report such cases. In this manner we can help to keep orkut beautiful.

Happy Orkutting :)

Picasa 3 From Google

Google released 3rd version of Picasa with many new features. New features (retouch your images, create and edit movies, etc) are really amazing. Please look at the video describing new features of Picasa 3.




Major features of this version

• Retouch your images : Use the Retouch tool to remove unsightly blemishes and improve photo quality.
• Create and edit movies : Combine your photos, videos, and music into a movie or use the editing room to trim your existing movies.
• Add text or watermarks to your photos : Easily personalize your photos using the Watermark and Text tools.
  
• Get more information about photos : New icons and tools to the Library view to quickly communicate useful information about your photos.
• And many more...

To know more about all new features and updates, visit http://picasa.google.com

Mac Update Engine from Google

Update Engine is a OS X framework that can help users keep their products up-to-date. It can update nearly any type of software, including Cocoa apps, screen savers, and preference panes. It can even update kernel extensions, regular files, and root-owned applications. Update Engine can even update multiple products just as easily as it can update one.

The following are some unique features of Update Engine:

• Can update virtually any type of product (e.g., Cocoa app, pref pane, kernel extension)
• Can update non-bundle-based products (e.g., command-line tool, plain file)
• Can update many products at once
• Solid framework on which to build

For more information please visit official Google Site : Update Engine