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Google will make wheelchair accessibility info more prominent in Maps

The Verge

Starting today, Google Maps will feature a new mode called Accessible Places that, when toggled on, will more prominently show wheelchair accessibility info, the company announced on Thursday. Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge. It will be rolling out gradually, the company says, for both Android and iOS.

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Four Recent Facebook Upgrades That Nonprofits Need to Know About

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, some recent upgrades to Facebook Pages have a big impact upon your nonprofit’s presence on Facebook and with the site-wide launch of the new News Feed and Social Graph Search coming soon, many more changes are likely to come. ” Facebook now recommends similar Pages when Facebook users like Pages.

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How to remove personal info from Google search

Digital Trends

Google's new privacy policy allows users to request the removal of personal info from Google search results. Here we explain how you can do that.

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Google may now remove search results that dox you

The Verge

Google says it’s expanding the types of personal information that it’ll remove from search results to cover things like your physical address, phone number, and passwords. Personal contact info (physical addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses). Images of handwritten signatures. Images of ID docs. Confidential login credentials.

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Clubhouse removed personal info from users’ accounts in Afghanistan as a safety measure

The Verge

Clubhouse has removed some info from users in Afghanistan as a safety measure | Clubhouse. Earlier this week, the platform reset tens of thousands of its Afghan users’ bios and photos, and made their accounts more difficult to discover in search. A message form @Clubhouse to #Afghanistan ’s users.

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Simple Search is a browser extension that gives you Google circa 2010

The Verge

For the last 10 years, Google has been building new widgets into its search results — and now, a group of journalists has built a browser extension to show you what search would look like without them. The extension lets you travel back to a time when online search operated a little differently,” they write.

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Needl wants to become the search engine for your accounts

TechCrunch

Google, DuckDuckGo and other search engines help you find information from the web. Needl is a cross-platform application that lets you search across your local file system and accounts like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack. A Y Combinator-backed app called Needl is helping users with that. Image Credits: Needl.

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