Searchles, We Hardly Knew You! - It's Alive!
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Searchles Live is a new feature that lets you automatically track what is happening in your groups, what people are commenting on, and what your friends are doing. It updates automatically. You get to it by clicking on a "searchles live" link that appears on the upper left on every page. You also see it on your personal home page; check out that big box on the left just under the blue rectangle on the screen shot in the previous section. Let me give you a different view of Searchles Live, from clicking on the link for it:
This was cropped and shrunk to fit, but I think you can make out at least some of it. There are three buttons at the upper right, "Pause," "Clear" and "Settings;" I clicked on the last one to give you an idea of the kinds of filters you can apply. This is literally a live feed. You can see what's happening with various groups and channels, for openers; that's the blue box on the left. You can check out who's rating what; that's the green box on the right (hmm, looks like dumbfinder is getting in a few afternoon chuckles with some funny videos). And you can see who's commenting on what; that's the box just below the green one that barely shows up in the screen shot.
I'm going to refer back to the screen shot of my personal page for a moment, because there's something I didn't cover that is also a live feed. That's the large box on the right:
This is actually a feed of the top-rated items among your circles, groups, friends, and friends of friends (that's what the "fof" stands for). Those are tabs at the top. It's another feature that can give you a quick impression of what's going on.
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