The continued search for better search in orkut

Posted by Eduardo Thuler, Product Manager



orkut may be all about your social connections, but Google is a search company at heart -- so we're always looking for ways to improve our orkut search features. Here are some of the latest improvements:

1. We are now making a greater effort to guess what you are looking for. In the past, you may have noticed that a more general search on orkut didn't always provide you the results you were hoping for. If you searched for a friend named Navneet, you may have found that the first results were for communities called "navneet." We've spent some time working on this and think you'll see better results more often now. So go ahead and try it here.
2. Just as with Google search, we'll now suggest a correction if we think you've misspelled your search words. You can see an example here.
3. We now take into account the country, state and city listed in your profile when searching on orkut, so you'll get the other Navneets from Maharashtra (if that's where you live), even if you have it listed as MH.

To help make these search improvements really effective, remember to keep your profile up to date.