Tag Archives: Wonder Wheel

Google Is Slowly Rolling out People Widget

Tech, , ,

Google People Widget

If you thought the contextual ads were the only things that Google used to display besides the messages on Gmail, read on. Google has been slowly rolling out the People Widget to Gmail users across the world.

Google’s idea of People Widget is as follows “The people widget surfaces content from colleagues and friends that is already available to you but may be hard to find and makes it easier to connect with them.”

People Widget appears as a side bar on the right hand side of the emails in the Gmail interface and allows one to perform Instant Group Chat, Schedule Meeting, Call or SMS  all the people in the mail trail. People Widget would now enable you to perform multitasking all while when only an email message is open. Apart from these, it also lists the previous conversations like shared documents, calendar events etc with the respective contacts.

Related Read: Have you noticed the Google Wonder Wheel

Image Courtesy: Google

Have you tried the Google Wonder Wheel,Not yet enabled for Google India

Internet, , , , , ,

Google Wonder Wheel is an awesome improvisation on search from Google by showing related search terms in hub and spoke model with the results on the right hand side for easier resolution of the searched query. The searched query item is at the center and if you click on one of the offshoots or the spokes, the clicked item now becomes the hub of the related search queries. The results are refreshed on the right hand side every time you click on one of the search items in the spoke. Here is the introductory video from Google’s Engineer, Adam on the Wonder Wheel:

Google wonder wheel is currently not available on Google India’s Search Page and hence you will need to go Google.com and enter the search parameter, at the left hand side of the page, click on More and then select Wonder Wheel and your Wonder Wheel is ready to roll on 🙂

 

 

WonderWheel

 

I searched for Phishing Attacks SMS as shown below in the snapshot. The search key word is at the center while related search terms are pointed outwards. Once you click on one of these populated search terms, the corresponding results are
refreshed on the right hand side, while the focus now shifts on the clicked Search term.

 

 

 

Wonder Wheel Google Search