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Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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sp332 wrote: post #47
jasonkester wrote: post #43

So what do you actually need to do to accomplish this? I followed the link to the Google+ page and it's just a giant wall of confusion. I see a circle with a link in the middle saying "Add Circle". Is that what I want to do? I would have expected to see something along the lines of "Add me to this Circle" so that I'd be part of it. Anyway, I clicked the "Add Circle" link, and got a string of progressively less parsea…

Go to https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts and, in one of the "Hacker News has shared a circle with you" posts, click the blue "View shared circle" button. Name the circle and voila, you now have a circle in your Google+ account with all the HN people who signed up on http://hngp.axxim.net/ Edit: I forgot to warn you that several hundred people will add you to their circles, and you will get notificati…

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Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by felideon »

sp332 wrote: post #47
jasonkester wrote: post #43

So what do you actually need to do to accomplish this? I followed the link to the Google+ page and it's just a giant wall of confusion. I see a circle with a link in the middle saying "Add Circle". Is that what I want to do? I would have expected to see something along the lines of "Add me to this Circle" so that I'd be part of it. Anyway, I clicked the "Add Circle" link, and got a string of progressively less parsea…

Go to https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts and, in one of the "Hacker News has shared a circle with you" posts, click the blue "View shared circle" button. Name the circle and voila, you now have a circle in your Google+ account with all the HN people who signed up on http://hngp.axxim.net/ Edit: I forgot to warn you that several hundred people will add you to their circles, and you will get notificati…

Doh. And now I have a whole bunch of people showing up in my chat client. Is there a way to disable that? I see the options for 'Who can start a Messenger conversation with you?' but they are somewhat limited and that's not the option I'm quite looking for.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by badclient »

freehunter wrote: post #57
badclient wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You apparently missed the overlarging bloat that google search has become in the past few years.

And this is a step to correct that. Search is hard, and its getting harder. SEO is ruining search, real human crowdsourced referrals offload the parts where algorithms cannot perform.

Algorithms are also written by real humans.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by bad_user »

sp332 wrote: post #47
jasonkester wrote: post #43

So what do you actually need to do to accomplish this? I followed the link to the Google+ page and it's just a giant wall of confusion. I see a circle with a link in the middle saying "Add Circle". Is that what I want to do? I would have expected to see something along the lines of "Add me to this Circle" so that I'd be part of it. Anyway, I clicked the "Add Circle" link, and got a string of progressively less parsea…

Go to https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts and, in one of the "Hacker News has shared a circle with you" posts, click the blue "View shared circle" button. Name the circle and voila, you now have a circle in your Google+ account with all the HN people who signed up on http://hngp.axxim.net/ Edit: I forgot to warn you that several hundred people will add you to their circles, and you will get notificati…

"You've reached the daily limit for adding to your circles. You can add more tomorrow."

For some reason it doesn't let me add anything by using that button. I can manually select each one and add them using the popup :)

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by betterth »

felideon wrote: post #64
sp332 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go to https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts and, in one of the "Hacker News has shared a circle with you" posts, click the blue "View shared circle" button. Name the circle and voila, you now have a circle in your Google+ account with all the HN people who signed up on http://hngp.axxim.net/ Edit: I forgot to warn you that several hundred people will add you to their circles, and you will get notificati…

Doh. And now I have a whole bunch of people showing up in my chat client. Is there a way to disable that? I see the options for 'Who can start a Messenger conversation with you?' but they are somewhat limited and that's not the option I'm quite looking for.

Yes! Leave it to Google to screw up privacy, I don't use G+ much but this right here has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I would say it's intentionally convoluted to get people to have poorly set settings (more "sharing"), but let's face it, Google's hilarious UI's come from their aversion to design (they're engineers!).

Anyway, I spent 20 minutes frantically trying to figure out how to handle gChat privacy settings while my carefully curated buddy list filled up with random names.

- Go to plus.google.com

- Find the chat box on the left side, there is a small down arrow at the top left of it

- Click on privacy settings

- MAKE SURE that only the circles you want in gChat are selected (IE uncheck the hacker news circle you made)

DO THIS BEFORE YOU JOIN!

I'm still trying to figure out how to get the names off my list, even though that has been set. No new names though. I'm just surprised that Google would add to my Google Chat buddy list, a totally separate product, without ever asking me if i wanted to combine G+ and gChat like that.

Very scary. What else are they going to "integrate" without asking me??

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by esrauch »

brown9-2 wrote: post #53

Am I the only person that thinks that the results shown in the Google search for "jQuery" are horrible search results? The results are: 1) a Google Plus post on "CodeAcademy teaches jQuery" 2) a Google Plus post on "15 Resources to Get You Started With jQuery from Scratch" 3) a Google Plus post on "Is there already a jQuery Plugin that provides a Google+ Circles...?" If you were to search for just the word "jQuery",…

He explicitly clicked on the "see personal results" link at the top of the search results, the screenshot is not what it looks like if you just type jquery into the box and click search. You can see the "Personal" title at the top of the results that has an X on it, and on the left hand side of the page "Personal" is selected.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by nek4life »

felideon wrote: post #64
sp332 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go to https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts and, in one of the "Hacker News has shared a circle with you" posts, click the blue "View shared circle" button. Name the circle and voila, you now have a circle in your Google+ account with all the HN people who signed up on http://hngp.axxim.net/ Edit: I forgot to warn you that several hundred people will add you to their circles, and you will get notificati…

Doh. And now I have a whole bunch of people showing up in my chat client. Is there a way to disable that? I see the options for 'Who can start a Messenger conversation with you?' but they are somewhat limited and that's not the option I'm quite looking for.

The setting is unfortunately hidden. You need to click on the little arrow that's next to the chat login next to stream to find it. If you're not signed into chat first do so then click the little arrow again. From there you can add and remove circles from your chat.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by [deleted] »

felideon wrote: post #64
sp332 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go to https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts and, in one of the "Hacker News has shared a circle with you" posts, click the blue "View shared circle" button. Name the circle and voila, you now have a circle in your Google+ account with all the HN people who signed up on http://hngp.axxim.net/ Edit: I forgot to warn you that several hundred people will add you to their circles, and you will get notificati…

Doh. And now I have a whole bunch of people showing up in my chat client. Is there a way to disable that? I see the options for 'Who can start a Messenger conversation with you?' but they are somewhat limited and that's not the option I'm quite looking for.

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