Twitter’s new real time search engine called CrowdEye, launched earlier this year has made moves to upgrade its features with plenty of new implementation that will bring to your mind Google. Among the services provided is a new Page rank measurement method, a custom made home page something that resembles iGoogle, and also the capability to search in the manner you would do so in Google like site: search

If you look at each feature in detail, CrowdEye allows you to customize their homepage with contents about their most important sites. It is your choice if you want to show tweets about some particularly interesting article you read somewhere you could do so. This provides an excellent platform for users who want to manage their own search page by giving in details about certain keywords or bulletins.

CrowdEye’s Co-founder, Ken Moss also made an announcement regarding its way of implementing Google’s Page Rank system. This system of ranking is of great relevance with respect to Twitter’s influence of accounts here. For instance the ranking system depends heavily on the number of followers that a particular user has whether they are top users or not.

They have also included a new operator called the Site: searches which are considered as a monitor tool at present though the announcements are to come soon. You can search for a specific content in connection with a domain using this particular operator. All the top links and tweets available for that particular domain will be put forward.

Another upgrade feature that is being added include the position of screen shots being added which is a combination of Twitter related functions like retweet, follow etc that is implemented throughout. This set of upgrades proves the position of CrowdEye to monitor Twitter and get all the details on their search page and this is indeed remarkable.

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The “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” is an area which is about the size of Texas in the Pacific Ocean that is filled with trash. If you search for that on Google Earth, it will not be found. Though of a considerable size, form above the patch is not visible.

The fact that such a large patch was not seen in Google earth was very disappointing. And this is after the company having made a great announcement with Google Ocean in the beginning of this year. They claimed that this is a way to view the major part of our earth which is water covered. Google Earth is supposed to be good when it comes to viewing under the ocean. If so why is it that this pile of garbage on the surface can’t be seen?

When contacted, the Google Ocean product manager Steve Miller was ready to give an explanation. He said that the company has not found very nice sources of data for most of the open ocean. Satellite imagery for ocean surface is limited, but where ever it is possible, the results are preserved in the recent versions of Google Earth. The satellite view is stored in Google Maps. A good example is that you can see the vessels in Southeast Asia. Imagery has lots of applications, ranging from finding ships to locating illegal fishing vessels to locating off-shore oil platforms.

According to Steve Miller, the patch does not appear in satellite imagery. This is a major challenge. The reason for this is that the plastic is a little below the surface of water and is in particulate nature. There are groups now trying to collect data about the patch by sampling process and other expeditions. He expressed hopes that these expeditions would help Google Earth obtain maps.

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